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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]
FTSE Dismisses Web Site Hack
News Leading financial index the FTSE has dismissed a recent attack on its Web site as no more than a juvenile prank and reassured customers that no vital data was at risk. The company is currently reviewing its Web defences and is considering putting...
[December 11, 2000, 15:06]
Security Organisation's Web Site Hacked
News The mirror image of the defacement hack showed large pictures of the Turkish flag and a message saying "HACKED By iSKORPiTX (Turkish Hacker)". The UK arm of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) has admitted its Web site was hacked...
[January 24, 2005, 14:20]
Security Company's Web Site Hacked
News The defacement represents as a major embarrassment for a company that produces software designed to protect computer systems from security threats. Computer security firm Network Associates was left embarrassed after two of its corporate Web site...
[November 30, 2000, 15:27]
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]
Defending Your Web Server
White Papers Some people consider Web site defacement a trivial thing, equivalent to the 'tags' spray-painted by street gangs. I had recently come across Attrition's page that lists Web server defacement statistics.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
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]
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]
FBI To Investigate Al-Jazeera Web Hijack
News Those name servers in turn referred Web requests to the defacement site located at NetWorld. The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. We didn't hear about many other defacers who hacked right...
[March 28, 2003, 9:35]
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]
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]
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]
'Pimpshiz' Speaks - With Pride
News Security site and defacement tracker Attrition.org has credited "Pimpshiz" with 20 mass defacements, each consisting of the same message. Music is art, an extension of ourselves," read one August Web defacement.
[January 15, 2001, 8:44]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Arab News Site Suffers Outages
News The Web site will immediately make a copy of the Web site and keep the copy as evidence of the defacement. Online vandals have defaced a greater number of Web sites following the start of the war, according to defacement tracker Zone-H.org.
[March 26, 2003, 8:16]
