Filed under: Defacements, Hacktivism, Penetration Testing, Personal Opinions, Security Articles
posted by D1m on 09 Aug 2007
How Crackers Deface Websites? Why They Do It?
Through the following post I am not purposing to influence you to start defacing, but to briefly give you a better understanding of how and why it is done.
Almost everyday I visit Zone-H’s archive of special digital attacks, I find that at least 1 or 2 attacks were done against US governmental web servers. The domain suffix of the defaced websites was *.gov. Does this fact means that they are totally secure? I don’t think so… Obviously the web servers may host very confidential data. In this case the web server administrators seemed to have allowed threats against governmental assets. Any unwanted consequences that a breach of security can lead to, are mainly caused by the irresponsibility and lazyness of system administrators and web developers.