Its hacks are relatively unsophisticated, consisting largely of website defacements.
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Cybersecurity experts described the defacements as the work of amateurs.
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PA: I want to proceed by means of violations and defacements.
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Hackers often claim responsibility for cybercrimes by adding their online pseudonyms to their defacements.
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Other recent defacements also mentioned Shield Iran, including those against the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank.
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Website defacements, especially against small or neglected websites, are broadly considered among the bottom tier of cyberattacks.
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Defacements of the star were frequent enough that a petition to remove the marker was circulated last April.
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In this case, the defacements are ominous because of the very real possibility of a more militarized cyberattack.
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Diligent users were able to turn the defacements of utter morons into whatever the opposite of a swastika is.
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Persian-language media had come to expect that elections and protests would be met with DDoS attacks and website defacements.
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As well as the politically focused web defacements, Dardar allegedly also hacked into businesses and then extorted money from them.
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Many Amazon employees felt uncomfortable following a series of recent defacements on LGBT "Pride" posters hanging in the company's elevators.
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"I know people personally who came very close to quitting Amazon as a consequence of those defacements," this person said.
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Majal faced DDoS attacks, defacements, and malicious script injections for years but couldn't afford pricey digital defenses on its shoestring budget.
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DNS attacks are also common, and they were used by the Syrian Electronic Army for a string of website defacements in 2013.
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The Saakashvili defacements may have been intended to further inflame tensions, making the cyberattacks appear to be the work of pro-Western hacktivists.
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Those tactics can include website defacements or distributed denial of service attacks, which flood prominent websites with so much traffic that they crash.
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Some of the hackers frequent Turkish language hacking forums, and are linked to previous defacements of other websites, according to search results of their email addresses.
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But the flurry of website defacements and social media rancor over the weekend are unlikely to be important, and might not have originated from Iran at all.
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Singer spends roughly 10 hours a week traveling to her public tiny doors in an SUV filled with paint, gardening soil and sculpting tools to fix any defacements.
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According to the research, a Pakistani hacking campaign called "Free Kashmir" logged the highest number of web defacements despite having significantly fewer perpetrators than other high-profile campaigns.
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Prosox's Twitter account doesn't give location details, but a link to a Zone-H profile — a website that acts as a record of damaged websites — shows almost 7,000 recorded defacements.
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"Among other possible effects, website defacements can disrupt an organization's operations and damage its credibility," William F. Sweeney Jr., the assistant director in charge of the F.B.I.'s New York field office, said in the statement.
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"While domain hijacks have historically been outright web defacements or theft, an attacker can also choose be more subtle and proxy traffic to the original server, observing every user and tampering with any target," the company says.
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According to Zone H, a tracking service described as "an online trophy cabinet for low-skilled hackers," Team System DZ was responsible for more than 200 website defacements on Sunday alone, hitting sites in countries like Malaysia, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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We do know that the school where the defacements occurred will conduct a read-aloud of "A Picture Book of Anne Frank," and have students create stenciled murals "around positive messages about diversity and inclusiveness, including around religion," according to the city's Department of Education.
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"We're aware that campaigns and related organizations and individuals are targeted by actors with a variety of motivations- from philosophical differences to espionage - and capabilities- from defacements to intrusions," Clapper's spokesman Brian Hale said in a statement, deferring to the FBI for details on specific incidents.
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"We're aware that campaigns and related organizations and individuals are targeted by actors with a variety of motivations - from philosophical differences to espionage - and capabilities - from defacements to intrusions," Clapper's spokesman, Brian Hale, said in a statement, deferring to the FBI for details on specific incidents.
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Security researchers explained that all these tools can be used as is, so it's plausible to expect that next week we will see several hacks on email servers, website defacements, or even an uptick in ransomware, the pervasive malware that locks computers and demands a payment in Bitcoin to unlock it.
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A website defacement is typically a low-skilled hack in order to spread a particular message and normally doesn't pose any other tangible security risks, but defacements are likely to receive more attention at this moment due to heightening tensions between the U.S. and Iran and the fact that they are visible on public websites.
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"Over the past 18-24 months, an unknown number of online extremists have conducted 'hacktivist' cyber operations—primarily Web site defacements, denial-of-service attacks, and release of personally identifiable information (PII) in an effort to spread pro-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) propaganda and to incite violence against the United States and the West," the FBI document obtained by Motherboard reads.
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One intelligence official from the Treasury Department, who wished to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to media, said the organization was not concerned with scattered online defacements, which cause little real damage and are difficult to attribute On the contrary, he said, Treasury and other government agencies are more concerned about a heightened risk of social engineering attacks from across the Shiite world, well beyond Iran, and the possibility that other hostile nations -- like Russia or China -- may take advantage of the chaos to launch their own attacks.
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In case you missed them, here are some of our recent pieces: Dutch spy agencies reportedly passed FBI 'crucial' intel on Russian election hacking DNC beefs up cyber team with former Yahoo executive Wyden blasts FBI chief over encryption remarks Six revelations from tech's answers on Russian election meddling Government watchdog adds security clearance process to 'high risk list' House Energy and Commerce demands answers on Spectre and Meltdown cyber flaws Russia-linked hacker group claims release of documents from International Luge Federation Pakistani hacking campaign leads in website defacements, study shows Dem presses Homeland Security for update on Kaspersky ban View the discussion thread.
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This damage is accompanied by other intentional defacements, leaving the hieroglyphic inscription in poor condition.
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Flags of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics of RSFSR were defacements of the 1954 flag of RSFSR, with texts or acronyms of the name of the republic in official languages.
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AnonCoders is a group of computer hackers. Using denial of service attacks, database hijacking, database leaks, admin panel takeovers, and other defacements, the group mainly targets Israeli websites in protest of crimes allegedly committed against the Palestinian people on behalf of Israel. AnonCoders began operation in January 2015. AnonCoders first attack was leveled against several major Israeli websites.
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Monument in Koetaradja. During the 1920s and 1930s, monuments to Van Heutsz were erected throughout the major cities of the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies including Amsterdam, Banda Aceh and Batavia. On 15 June 1935, The Van Heutsz Monument in South Amsterdam (Amsterdam-Zuid) was inaugurated by Queen Wilhelmina. The monument underwent many defacements several times during various protests from 1965 to 2004.
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The conflict also engendered considerable propaganda, hacktivism and cyber warfare (both on the part of the combatants and polities directly involved and of independent, private parties) which resulted in numerous website defacements, denial-of- service attacks and domain name and account hijackings. An opt-in anti-Hamas botnet created by Israeli students appeared, and new media diplomacy appeared on social networking sites such as Facebook and Second Life, and on new media such as Twitter.
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Thought to have been derived from Dante Alighieri’s novel, The Inferno. The group called themselves Level Seven after the seventh level of hell, the violent. Contained in some of the group’s web defacements, was the quote: "il livello sette posidare la vostra famiglia", which loosely translated from Italian says, "Level Seven owns your family". The group, spent most of their time on IRC - in the EFnet channel #LevelSeven discussing security, or the lack thereof.
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13, 1993, University of Chicago Press It was perhaps built by Antonio Gambello from a design by Jacopo Bellini. Two lions taken from Greece situated beside it were added in 1687. One of the lions, known as the Piraeus Lion, has runic defacements carved in it by invading Scandinavian mercenaries during the 11th century. In the late 16th century, the Arsenal's designers experimented with larger ships as platforms for heavy naval guns.
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Hacktivismo is an offshoot of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), whose beliefs include access to information as a basic human right. It was founded in 1999. The group's beliefs are described fully in The Hacktivismo Declaration, which seeks to apply the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the Internet. Oxblood Ruffin, the director of Hacktivismo, has argued forcefully against definitions of hacktivism that include web defacements or denial-of-service attacks.
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In the early 1990s, during the Croatian War of Independence, numerous monuments erected in honour of the Partisans have been damaged or destroyed throughout the country, and these incidents were generally not censured by the authorities at all. Furthermore, the devastation of World War II partisan monuments also often extended to those erected in honour of civilian victims of war, also with little or no intervention from the police. The defacements occurred during a period when communist parties lost power in much of Eastern Europe.
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While such pranks are officially discouraged by Encinitas mayor Dan Dalager and city authorities, it is unofficially acknowledged that the sculpture's repeated costuming or vandalism is a boost to Cardiff's tourist trade. Antichevich regards the vandalism as an insult to his work. No legal action has been taken against such vandals, because no damage has been done to the sculpture itself. It does not cost the city extra to clean up the various defacements, but it does divert time from tasks that city employees could otherwise be doing.
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The term's original usage was close to that of the traditional meaning of the word own – for instance, "I owned the network at MIT" indicated that the speaker had cracked the servers and had the same root-level privileges that the legitimate owner of the servers had. Some more examples are "I owned you" and "You got owned". Owned,or Ownded a later variant, became more common in the late 1990s, as did the more abstract usage referring to any compromised security mechanism. By 1997, Owned was regularly used in website defacements.
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Global kOS were a loose collective of members of other hacking groups active in 1996 who released network and security tools for Windows and Linux. The group did not release exploit code as other groups did, each member maintained their own webpage and often acted individually or with their original group. Global kOS continually reiterated that their goal was entirely about rampaging across the internet and creating as much chaos as they could by releasing automated denial of service tools. The group was humorous and irreverent in interviews and press releases, they and affiliates openly taunted webmasters through website defacements.
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Case stated he believed he was "on the good side" as he broke into company websites to alert them of security problems, not to cause harm. In May 2000 Case was charged with criminal mischief and computer crime for breaking into the Colorado Springs city website, causing an estimated $25,000 in damages, though all $25,000 are costs of "time lost" to users. These defacements launched him into the spotlight, making him a resource for the media, commenting on other hacking-related events, such as the denial of service attacks on Yahoo, eBay, Gay.com, and other well-known websites in 2000.
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Painter's Putty is typically a linseed oil-based product used for filling holes, minor cracks and defacements in wood only. Putties can also be made intumescent, in which case they are used for firestopping as well as for padding of electrical outlet boxes in fire-resistance rated drywall assemblies. In the latter case, hydrates in the putty produce an endothermic reaction to mitigate heat transfer to the unexposed side. In woodworking, water-based putties are more commonly used, as these emit very little odour, are more easily cleaned up and are compatible with water-based and latex sealers.
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In this way, they might be considered coercive. Brownlee notes that "although civil disobedients are constrained in their use of coercion by their conscientious aim to engage in moral dialogue, nevertheless they may find it necessary to employ limited coercion to get their issue onto the table." The Plowshares organization temporarily closed GCSB Waihopai by padlocking the gates and using sickles to deflate one of the large domes covering two satellite dishes. Electronic civil disobedience can include web site defacements, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft and data leaks, illegal web site parodies, virtual sit-ins, and virtual sabotage.
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That May, Michael McGrath won a contract to build granite steps, brick arches, and other ornamentation at the 110th and 116th Street entrances on the western border and at four intermediate overlook bays. The park was still in a rural state, as indicated that same year: according to a Times article, police captured 16 cows illegally grazing in the park, and local dairymen were fined for pasturing their herds there. Following this, the DPP ordered that all signs and other "defacements" be removed from the park site. By mid-1886, several local entities were expressing frustration at the lack of progress at Morningside Park.
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Global kOS ('kos' pronounced as chaos) were a grey hat (leaning black hat) computer hacker group active from 1996 through 2000, considered a highly influential group who were involved in multiple high-profile security breaches and defacements as well as a releasing notable network security and intrusion tools.vanity fair, Invisible Enemies (2000).Hacker's Encyclopedia Hacker's Encyclopedia Global kOS were involved with the media heavily and were interviewed and profiled by journalist Jon Newton in his blog titled "On The Road in Cyberspace" (OTRiCSAcidAngel InterviewOTRiCSgkos infoJohn Newton bioAcidAngel gets Jon busted). The group were reported multiple times to the FBI by Carolyn Meinel who attempted to bring the group to justice while members of Global kOS openly mocked her.
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The Sydney Morning Herald described Baillieu as "Full-time rich-lister, part-time vigilante." and that "Baillieu says security made no attempt to stop him, and that he was simply fighting a crime - the theft of his family name". Baillieu "made an easy confession that he personally crossed out the word 'Baillieu' from its Collins street offices. In broad daylight and with Baillieu making sure to stay within the bounds of the law by making his defacements only in removable marker." On 14 June 2019 following a campaign of legal pressure from the 'pugnacious' Baillieu and his lawyers Herbert Smith Freehills urging them to change their name, the stockbrokers agreed to change their name to E.L.&C.
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Depending on who is using the term, hacktivism can be a politically motivated technology hack, a constructive form of anarchic civil disobedience, or an undefined anti- systemic gesture. It can signal anticapitalist or political protest; it can denote anti-spam activists, security experts, or open source advocates. Some people describing themselves as hacktivists have taken to defacing websites for political reasons, such as attacking and defacing government websites as well as web sites of groups who oppose their ideology. Others, such as Oxblood Ruffin (the "foreign affairs minister" of Cult of the Dead Cow and Hacktivismo), have argued forcefully against definitions of hacktivism that include web defacements or denial-of-service attacks.
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The Kedahan coat of arms consists of only three heraldic elements: An escutcheon, a crescent, and a wreath; the arms may be illustrated with only the aforementioned elements or included against a red ellipse. Details of the arm's heraldic elements are as follows: ;Escutcheon :The escutcheon, which consists of a yellow Swiss shield, represents the sovereign's authority and symbolises the role of the ruler as the protector and guardian of his subjects and all the inhabitants of Kedah from unjust governance; the shield also signifies strength and authority. Occasionally, a defacement with Jawi scriptures that reads "نݢري قده" (State of Kedah) rest on the horizontal meridian on the shield. There has been known variations of defacements on the shield.
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Much as the JAMs' early recordings carried messages on the back of existing musical works, their promotional graffiti often derived its potency from the context in which it was placed. For instance, The JAMs' "SHAG SHAG SHAG" graffiti, coinciding with their release of "All You Need Is Love", was drawn over the "HALO HALO HALO" slogan of a Today billboard that depicted Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable James Anderton, who had decried homosexuals amidst the UK media's AIDS furore. Music press journalists were occasionally invited to witness the defacements. In December 1987, a Melody Maker reporter was in attendance to see Cauty reverse his car Ford Timelord alongside a billboard and stand on its roof to graffiti a Christmas message from the JAMs.
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The flags with the French flag in the canton, which on many occasions were already existing flags without the tricolour, resembled the British colonial flags, which originated as defacements of the British ensigns, which have the British Union Jack in the canton, and a red, white or blue fly. Naval sources show flags such as those used in the French Mandate of Syria as having the tricolour with unequal stripes, as in the French ensign, but it is likely that these versions of the flags were used at sea, and on land the tricolour had the standard equal stripes. While for the sake of simplicity French colonial ensign are on this page classified by appearance, this should not be taken to imply common origins or the existence of undefaced ensigns used by the French government unless otherwise noted.
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Reality hacking is any phenomenon that emerges from the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of politically, socially, or culturally subversive ends. These tools include website defacements, URL redirections, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web-site parodies, virtual sit-ins, and virtual sabotage. Art movements such as Fluxus and Happenings in the 1970s created a climate of receptibility in regard to loose-knit organizations and group activities where spontaneity, a return to primitivist behavior, and an ethics where activities and socially engaged art practices became tantamount to aesthetic concerns. The conflation of these two histories in the mid-to-late 1990s resulted in cross-overs between virtual sit-ins, electronic civil disobedience, denial-of-service attacks, as well as mass protests in relation to groups like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia () were a series of cyberattacks which began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.The Guardian 17 May 2007: Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia by Ian Traynor Most of the attacks that had any influence on the general public were distributed denial of service type attacks ranging from single individuals using various methods like ping floods to expensive rentals of botnets usually used for spam distribution. Spamming of bigger news portals commentaries and defacements including that of the Estonian Reform Party website also occurred. Research has also shown that large conflicts took place to edit the English-language version of the Bronze Soldier's Wikipedia page.
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The OSinform website at osinform.ru kept its header and logo, but its content was replaced by the content of Alania TV website. Alania TV, a Georgian government supported television station aimed at audiences in South Ossetia, denied any involvement in the hacking of the rival news agency website. Dmitry Medoyev, the South Ossetian envoy to Moscow, claimed that Georgia was attempting to cover up the deaths of 29 Georgian servicemen during the flare-up on August 1 and 2. On 5 August, Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline was subject to a terrorist attack near Refahiye in Turkey, responsibility for which was originally taken by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) but there is circumstantial evidence that it was instead a sophisticated computer attack on line's control and safety systems that led to increased pressure and explosion. According to Jart Armin, a researcher, many Georgian Internet servers were under external control since late 7 August 2008. On 8 August, the DDoS attacks peaked and the defacements began.
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In the chapter "The Spouter Inn", a painting hanging on the wall of a whaler's inn is described as irreconcilably unclear, overscrawled with smoke and defacements. The narrator, so-called Ishmael, describes how this painting can be both lacking any definition and still provoking in the viewer dozens of distinct possible understandings, until the great mass of interpretations resolves into a Whale, which grounds all the interpretations while containing them, an indication of how Melville sees his own book unfolding around this chapter. In Pérez Galdós's Our Friend Manso (1882), the narrator describes two paintings by Théodore Géricault to point to the shipwreck of ideals; while in La incógnita (1889), there are many allusions and descriptions of Italian art, including references to Botticelli, Mantegna, Masaccio, Raphael, Titian, etc. In Ibsen's 1888 work The Lady from the Sea, the first act begins with the description of a painting of a mermaid dying on the shore and is followed by a description of a sculpture that depicts a woman having a nightmare of an ex- lover returning to her.
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