Indeed, within days of the recent denial-of-service hacks, authorities quickly focused their search on an Internet Relay Chat braggart with the moniker "mafia-boy" and on "Coolio, " the alias of the person who allegedly hijacked the domain of RSA Security and redirected it to a defaced site.
"This is first case where I've heard of someone leaking stuff to Anonymous to have a site defaced, instead of defacing it himself, " said Clifford Neuman, director of University of Southern California Center for Computer Systems Security.
"If there's no transgression, it's not pixacao, " says Cripta, who recently defaced a church in Berlin when he was invited to give a workshop at the Bienal there.
This was felt necessary even in a case where the books had been defaced by captured Afghan jihadis as a means of encouragingtheir comrades to further acts of violence against us.
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Lulzsec claimed to have attacked News International, whose website for The Sun was defaced with a false story suggesting the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch had died.
Last week, al-Jazeera Arabic's website was defaced, with a Syrian flag posted on the front page.
For cash, Greeks at first use existing euro banknotes defaced with ink or a stamp.
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There have been sporadic incidents of violence ahead of the vote: Billboards have been defaced and just last week, a Hezbollah-aligned political office was burned to the ground.
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In a grating public embarrassment, the statue outside the institute was defaced in April: Someone spray-painted the word "thief" on the figure of Scrushy.
Most of its target sites seem to have remained online, and several downed and defaced sites seemed like random low-hanging fruit: A manufacturing an export company and a real estate law firm, for instance.
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After Anonymous published a list of 91 target sites, many were quickly taken offline or defaced.
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In December, for instance, the head of Iran's central bank issued a stern warning that from January 8th it would no longer accept bank notes defaced by extra words.
The group also defaced government Web sites including this one, which is currently down due to be subject to a DDoS attack.
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