Website Attacks in the News

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NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Website Defaced

United Nations' website hacked

Trend Micro, Number 3 Antivirus Manufacturer, website hacked - infects visitors computers

CNN Video: No Website is Safe

Al Gore website hacked

Over 10,000 website hacked; infecting visitors' PCs with Rbot backdoor trojan horse

White House Web site shut down

Government Site Infested

McAfee Projects Increasing Cyber Crime

Linux utility site hacked, infected

Firefox marketing site hacked

YouTube: Our humor, not our hack

Domain registry site gets hacked

Firefox promo site taken down by hackers

ZombieMeter keeps track of hacked PCs

French Microsoft Web site hacked

Web vandals' contest leaves faint trace

Circuit City warns of online forum attack

NY Times site disabled by vengeful hackers

Google experiences outage

How would YOU know if your website has been vandalized?
Website Defacement and Vandalism, the acts of making unauthorized changes to a website's content, can be extremely damaging to its owner's reputation and revenues.

These changes can include profane or slanderous text, images, links to other websites, and malicious coded scripts and applications which can propagate and infect visitors' computers, and could subject the organization to lawsuits. Some of these changes are obvious, such as explicit graphics, and some are hidden within the programming of the website and are invisible and thus can only be detected by computer software.

The number of viruses, malware code, and illicit websites increase on a daily basis, and therefore the software looking for these changes needs to continuously be examining the code of the website and comparing it to various databases which contain the ever-increasing identifiers of illicit material.
There are many systems available which help prevent websites from hackers, but nothing is available which can protect websites completely, and absolutely nothing can prevent a website from being changed by a person with a set of valid credentials. These are all preventative measures, but when a defacement incident occurs, it is often invisible and there are sparse offerings of services that can help administrators become aware of the incident. Except for WebDog and our exclusive Vandal Vanguard defacement detection process.

WE can tell you!
WebDog Security Systems offers a thorough, comprehensive and non-invasive website defacement detection service. Through combinations of automated systems and security professionals, we watch over your website on a continuous basis. When questionable material is detected, your website administrator is notified within moments.

Our detection systems are completely non-invasive. That is, there is absolutely no software to install or to manage on your web servers. We monitor content presented from the visitor's perspective. Your website is scanned thoroughly every five minutes, or at whatever interval desired.

For almost 30% of our new clients, we detected illicit material already contaminating their websites as soon as we began our scanning process. The number and frequency of attacks is increasing. In this day and age, your website is the billboard by which the public comes to know and trust your organization. Vandalism attacks can ruin a company's long-standing reputation in minutes and links to unauthorized links to other websites may already be embedded within your corporate website today without your knowledge.



LEARN MORE about Website Defacement, and the various common types of vandalism that are the most prevalent techniques of damaging your website.