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A website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site. These are typically the work of system crackers, who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. A message is often left on the webpage stating his or her pseudonym and the output from "uname -a" and the "id" command along with "shout outs" to his or her friends.... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Website defacement

    A website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site. These are typically the work of system crackers, who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own.
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    Defacement (vandalism)

    In computing, website defacement is usually the substitution of the original home page by a system cracker.
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    Owned

    By 1997, "owned" was regularly used in website defacements, and it subsequently spread to gaming circles, where it was used to refer to defeat in a game. ... ↑ "Yahoo website defacement". attrition.org (8 December 1997).
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    WMFS

    WMFS Website Defacement in November, 1999; courtesy of 2600 Magazine's hacked pages mirror.
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    Hacker (computer security)

    Some go as far as seeing illegal cracking ethically justified for this goal; the most common form is website defacement.
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    Defacement

    Defacement (flag) - a term used in heraldry and vexillology.
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    Defacement (flag)

    Defacement is a term used in heraldry and vexillology to refer to the addition of a symbol or charge to another flag.
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    Anonymous (group)

    Defacement of SOHH and AllHipHop websites ... The attack against the website took place in stages, as Anonymous users flooded the SOHH forums, which were then shut down.
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    Dublin's Q102

    The "take over" involved a defacement of Lite 102.2's website and the constant playing of Mah Nà Mah Nà during the transition period.
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    Dennis Moran (computer criminal)

    The defacement included a reference to David Brumley's nickname on IRC, as he had joined the channel by then in an attempt to gather more information from Dennis. de la Garza witnessed this live show of criminal activity and later reported about it to the media. ... After having so much attention drawn to him, and de la Garza's account of Moran being responsible for defacing RSA's website, the FBI investigated Moran's connections to other website defacements .

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