Tag: hacktivism
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VB2017 preview: Hacktivism and website defacement: motivations, capabilities and potential threats
In March this year, following a political row between the Netherlands and Turkey, a large number of Dutch websites were defaced to display messages in support of the Turkish government. It was another example in a growing trend of socio-political motivated attackers defacing websites, or performing other kinds of hacks, to spread their message. For…
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VB2017 preview: Hacktivism and website defacement: motivations, capabilities and potential threats
In March this year, following a political row between the Netherlands and Turkey, a large number of Dutch websites were defaced to display messages in support of the Turkish government. It was another example in a growing trend of socio-political motivated attackers defacing websites, or performing other kinds of hacks, to spread their message. For…
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Hacktivists hijack DNS of popular websites
Security at registrars may be weak link. A hacktivist group has managed to redirect the traffic of two popular websites by hijacking their DNS settings, researchers at Internet Identity report. The sites belong to UFC , a mixed martial arts promotion company, and Coach , which produces luxury goods. Both companies had expressed their support…
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UK government sites warned to brace against attack
GovCertUK issues warning in aftermath of arrests of Anonymous gang members. UK government websites have been warned that they may find themselves subject to attack following the arrest of five Britons as part of an investigation into the Anonymous hacking group earlier this week. The hacking group that calls itself ‘Anonymous’ has been under investigation…