The Hindu Business Line : Web site defacements dip to 144 in June

THE number of reported incidents of Indian Web site defacement in popular domains, including .com and .org, dipped to 144 in June compared to 394 cases in May, according to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

This takes the total reported incidents of Indian Web site defacement and hacking in the first six months of the current year (January-June) to 1,691, with January recording the maximum number of cases(798).

Web defacement is a form of malicious hacking in which a Web site is "vandalised." Often, the hacker replaces the site's content with a specific political or social message or completely erases the content from the site, relying on known security vulnerabilities for access to the site's content. This is done by taking advantage of new or common, exploitable security holes in Web-server technology - the software that stores and sends Web pages back to the browser.

As per the June data with CERT-In, a bulk of Indian Web site defacement occurred in the .com domain. The number of defacement cases in the .com space stood at 103 cases in June, against 313 in May.

Fifteen incidents of defacement were reported in the .org domain, compared to 29 the previous month. The number of defacements in the .net and the .co.in domains stood at 11 and eight respectively. Defacements were also tracked in other domains such as .info, .in, .gov.in, .ac.in and .edu.

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