Threat | Vandalism

• Rewriting someone else’s web page to display the vandal’s message

• Classic examples

  • Department of Justice; August 1996
    • Hackers vandalized www.usdoj.gov with swastikas, obscene pictures, and criticisms of the CDA
  • CIA; September 1996
    • Vandalized www.odci.gov/cia with “Welcome to the Central Stupidity Agency”, etc.
  • Air Force; December 1996
    • Vandalized www.af.mil with X-rated picture captioned “This is what the government is doing to you.”
  • Example: NASA; March 1997
    • Vandalized www.nasa.gov with references to the Internet Liberation Front (ILF)

• More recent examples include

  • World Trade Organization
  • Activist organizations urging DoS attacks on others