The number of vandalized Web sites recorded by defacement archive Alldas.de jumped in 2001 to 22,379, more than five times the 4,393 defacements logged in 2000. Brazilian cybervandals are mostly ...

One consequence of the public’s compliance with social distancing and quarantines during the COVID-19 pandemic is a sharp decline in most types of crime. It looks like people staying home made ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foresight today released Defacement Mitigator, the first cloud-based web security solution that provides full defacement mitigation and protection to government, academic, ...

The website for ODIN Intelligence, a company that provides technology and tools for law enforcement and police departments, was defaced on Sunday. The apparent hack comes days after Wired reported ...

A small number of Network Solutions Web hosting customers over the weekend found that their Web sites had been defaced, the company acknowledged on Tuesday. In a blog post, Shashi Bellamkonda, ...

While e-business may have slumped, online vandalism has been booming, according to Attrition.org. On Monday, the nonprofit security site announced its decision to stop tracking the defacement of Web ...

Hacktivists have launched hundreds of web defacement attacks against targets in Israel following the devastating attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023. More than 100 hacktivists ...

Tracking malicious hackers' early activities using open source intelligence can offer substantial clues about the likelihood of their becoming a persistent threat in the future, two university ...

The Alldas.de Web site, which archives copies of Web pages that have been digitally defaced by online hoodlums, announced Monday that the founder of the site would be retiring and the site moving to a ...

A Turkish hacktivist defaced a subdomain of the president-elect’s campaign website. A subdomain used by President-elect Joe Biden’s official campaign website was defaced last week by a self-proclaimed ...

The day after the big Web site defacement challenge laid a big egg, the headlines predictably told of a threat that never really materialized. Or they focused on the intra-hacker intrigue and the ...

Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of Web site defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest. The attack left the security site ...