atNewYork.com: Lookout Warning Issued for Site Defacements

“The Internet Security Systems’ X-Force unit has sounded an
alarm for an increase in hacker activity between July 6-7 to
coincide with a contest encouraging defacements of Web sites around
the world.

“ISS raised its current threat level to ‘AlertCon 2’ to coincide
with the site defacement competition, which awards prizes to
intruders who successfully compromise an organization’s Web server
and deface its Web pages.

“Analysts monitoring the so-called hacking challenge warned that
it could disrupt normal Internet activity and cause mass
defacements and shutdown of affected Web pages…”

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