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Hacking Editor Claims Innocence Over Hospital Web Defacement
News The editor of UK hacking publication 'Anti-Social' has contacted ZDNet UK News to dispute claims that he is responsible for defacing the Web site of Saint George's Hospital Medical School. We've contacted the owners of the Web site and will of...
[November 8, 1999, 13:31]
Hackers Compete To Deface Web Sites
News A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the holiday weekend. To deface in a short time, defacers are using special mass-defacement tools that can deface in three...
[July 3, 2003, 7:35]
Feds Raid Room, Confiscate Student's Computers
News Law enforcement officials hunting for the vandal responsible for the 27 October defacement of the New York Yankees' Web site searched a computer science student's dorm room on Saturday and removed three computers.
[November 1, 2000, 9:43]
Hacker Trackers Throw In The Towel
News On Monday, the nonprofit security site announced its decision to stop tracking the defacement of Web pages by online vandals because the volunteer staff can no longer keep up with the volume of defacements.
[May 22, 2001, 10:12]
Crackers Deface Burger King Web Site
News According to the German-based Web page defacement archive Alldas.de, the Burger King site functions using the Windows NT operating system. The defacement carried the less flattering message: "Eat our food, we want your money," and advised visitors...
[March 2, 2001, 11:00]
Cracker Offers Site Defacement Service
News asks the Web page vandal in a Christmas defacement. Design a cool web defacement, using your own name or group, zip it up with all the images and send it to me. A cracker known for defacing UK Web sites has launched a scheme that lets anyone take...
[January 2, 2001, 15:10]
Cybergang 'Gunmen' Aim For Media
News The defacement only affected the Web site, and only for minutes, before the Nasdaq's security quashed the unauthorised story. The Gunmen contacted Attrition.org to report its defacement of four media-related sites in the past four weeks, including...
[September 17, 1999, 14:17]
FBI To Investigate Al-Jazeera Web Hijack
News The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. Those name servers in turn referred Web requests to the defacement site located at NetWorld. The defacement is the latest in a flurry of activity...
[March 28, 2003, 9:35]
Government Sites Defaced In US, UK And Australia
News Government sites in the US, UK and Australia were reportedly hit by a single group of hackers Saturday in what has been described as the most systematic defacement of world-wide government servers on the Web.
[January 22, 2001, 12:24]
Political Hackers On The Increase In Britain
News There was a marked decrease in global Web site defacements following the 11 September terrorist attacks, according to mi2g's figures, which are gathered by consultants and software robots monitoring for Web site defacement in real time across the...
[January 14, 2002, 17:52]
Lovesick Hacker Hits Microsoft
News A Microsoft spokesman said early Tuesday that he was unable to confirm the attack on the company's Conference Management Server site, but the defacement was documented by attrition.org, a reliable computer security site that maintains an archive...
[October 27, 1999, 8:30]
'Pimpshiz' Speaks - With Pride
News Music is art, an extension of ourselves," read one August Web defacement. Security site and defacement tracker Attrition.org has credited "Pimpshiz" with 20 mass defacements, each consisting of the same message.
[January 15, 2001, 8:44]
A Year Ago: Cybergang 'Gunmen' Aim For Media
News The defacement only affected the Web site, and only for minutes, before the Nasdaq's security quashed the unauthorised story. The Gunmen contacted Attrition.org to report its defacement of four media-related sites in the past four weeks, including...
[September 19, 2000, 7:00]
USA Today Investigating Hack Attack
News The Web site defacement happened at 7:50 p.m. By its own account, USA Today caught this defacement before any significant damage was done. Newspaper USA Today said on Friday that one or more online vandals had posted a fake front page and six...
[July 15, 2002, 8:59]
Hackers Attack Government Web Site
News The group of computer crackers claiming responsibilitty for the defacement, Prime Suspectz, are thought to have been behind break-ins at a number of Web sites in recent weeks. The defacement comes at a point of financial weakness for Europe's...
[March 12, 2001, 15:07]
Hackers Set Off On A Rampage
News An FAA representative said the FBI is investigating the defacement of one of the agency's Web pages. That defacement included publicly shared information taken from an FAA database on airport-security screeners.
[May 3, 2002, 10:33]
Al-Jazeera Hacker Awaits Sentence
News The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. On March 27, after the defacement gained media attention, VeriSign suspended the Al-Jazeera account. A Californian man pleaded guilty on Thursday to two...
[June 13, 2003, 9:18]
Does The Media Cause Hacking? (part 2)
News But not everyone thinks Web defacement is necessarily bad. Another hacker, who claims responsibility for the Army.mil defacement, also defended the tactic. For example, the Army.mil attack came through a known hole in the security of a Web server...
[July 6, 1999, 8:47]
McDonalds UK Web Site Hacked By Fluffy Bunny
News In the format of the original UK McDonalds page, the defacement advertises such products as "Bexter Nuggets", the "Bunny Burger" and states: "We want Boobiez". Security experts say that this sort of defacement can potentially do the most damage to...
[February 22, 2001, 11:29]
Arab News Site Suffers Outages
News Online vandals have defaced a greater number of Web sites following the start of the war, according to defacement tracker Zone-H.org. Attackers who tag Web sites with digital graffiti normally want the world to know and so immediately notify sites...
[March 26, 2003, 8:16]
