defacement

The message of the defacement accused Notepad++ of inciting hatred towards Islam and accusing Islam of supporting terrorism.

The second defacement reminded me of a geocities page with music playing in the background.

As long as you have a popular site you're a target for defacement.

Creative defacement of the art would have been a more interesting in-kind response, but I suppose that ship has sailed.

If a browser chooses not to request certain content, or chooses not to display it to the user, there is no defacement going on.

Not a hint of defacement or suppression would come from them.

I'd think it's to organised for a defacement (re-written code, signed binaries, two sites compromised).

I doubt there would be massacres but I expect there would be some form of defacement or attempts at suppression by fundamentalists.

If not watched carefully, it could become a cesspool of hate, crime, defacement, intimidation...

How can anyone be surprised that any modification of a nation's flag will be seen by some as malevolent defacement and an attack on that nation?

* That's a lot of wasted effort for a defacement with seemingly no motive except some (uncredited) lulz.

But server level hardening to prevent a defacement?

Also, "hacker" being closer to the juvenile antics of webpage defacement - not the making of blinking sweaters with lilypad kits and hot glue.

I wouldn't put doxing in the same category as "web site graffiti and defacement".

I really hope it's "just" a defacement/DNS issue.

Your attacker would need a backdoor or 0day into AWS itself - which while you'd be a fool to assume such a thing doesn't exist, its very unlikely to get "burned" on a run-of-the-mill website hack or defacement.

Defacement of a public portion of the NSA's site is just going to land you in a world of hurt, even if you are in a far off country.