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Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment Because it can allow attackers to run code in the user's browser, the possibilities are limitless - attackers can hijack a web session, deface websites or introduce malware. The web is already the main target for security attacks. [26 Nov 2007]
Microsoft.co.uk defaced
News It said in a statement: "Microsoft has learned of a criminal attempt to deface a sub-site of Microsoft.com. Details have emerged of an attack which defaced Microsoft's UK website. Hackers broke through the site's security, defacing it and replacing... [03 Jul 2007]
Hackers deface KevinMitnick.com
News Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's website on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. Online vandals, apparently operating from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting Mitnick's... [22 Aug 2006]
Hackers deface Microsoft.fr
News Hackers on Sunday broke into a part of Microsoft's French website, replacing the front page with online graffiti. The intruders were able to access the server that was running 'http://experts.microsoft.fr/', Microsoft confirmed on Monday. [20 Jun 2006]
Hackers deface SCO website
News Hackers defaced SCO Group's website on Monday, targeting the company's controversial claims to elements of the Linux operating system. In a hack that began sometime before 0530 (PST) on Monday, someone placed a graphic atop SCO's home page that... [30 Nov 2004]
US vote site blocks overseas ISPs
News The goal is to make it more difficult for hackers to deface and/or hijack the website," said Lieutenant Colonel Ellen Krenke. Many of the world's major internet service providers have been blocked from providing access to a US government website... [22 Sep 2004]
Brazil 'home to 80 per cent of world's hackers'
News Financial losses from cybercrime in Brazil now exceed those from bank robberies, with the country home to a significant number of black hat hacker gangs, including the group which won a competition last year to deface the most number of websites... [15 Sep 2004]
'Jihad' online is just hype
News Jose Nazario, attack researcher for security company Arbor Networks, said: "There has been a lot of occasions of people saying, 'hey, let's have a party and deface a lot of websites', and not much has come from it. [26 Aug 2004]
CERTŪ Advisory CA-2001-11 Sadmind/IIS Worm
White Paper The worm uses two well-known vulnerabilities to compromise systems and deface web pages. The CERT/CC has received reports of a new piece of self-propagating malicious code (referred to here as the sadmind/IIS worm). [24 Feb 2004]
What is Code RedII?
White Paper Unlike Code Red, CodeRed.C does not attack any single IP or deface websites, rather it drops a trojan, Trojan.VirtualRoot, on to the infected web server. The method of infection is the same with the former versions of the CodeRed worm. [24 Feb 2004]
The easily recoverable CD-ROM Booted Linux Internet Server, A How-To
White Paper While the capabilities of such a system are limited, the applications for a system which can serve DNS or static web pages and is difficult or nearly impossible to deface (and easy to recover with a simple reboot) are many. [24 Feb 2004]
Hacker Repellent
White Paper This white paper will discuss how to identify vulnerabilities and design flaws that can be exploited by hackers to gain access to your web site to steal intellectual property, corporate assets, and customer data; to alter prices, deface or... [24 Feb 2004]
5 years ago... The Pope makes net debut
News The controversies surrounding the Catholic Church and religion in general means the Vatican website has set itself up as a target for hacktivists - a recent phenomenon of protestors who deface websites and plot cyber attacks to make a political or... [11 Aug 2003]
No justification for weekend hacking competition
Comment The first group or individual to hack, or crack, 6,000 servers and deface them wins. This weekend a controversial competition is set to take place in which hackers will attempt to cause as much damage as possible in the shortest time. [03 Jul 2003]
Hacker vandalism contest controversy
News It means instead that they are rooting [taking over] targets, waiting to deface them during the contest time. To deface in a short time, defacers are using special mass-defacement tools that can deface in three minutes a web-hosting server that... [03 Jul 2003]
