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How are idiot kids (look at the text, language - and I doubt there was much skill involved) plus the defacement of a site making news?

(Disclaimer: Working for a company from IL, lived in IL, have no political opinion on the conflict itself and - our corporate site was defaced last Saturday as well, with weird bullshit in Hebrew, roughly as interesting as this submission)

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A lot of time language like this is used intentionally for added effect. And then every time something like this happens "idiot kids" are derided for not having any skill. Yet a company like Groupon with salaried technical engineers failed to defend themselves. If we're defending our networks against idiot kids then we're covered, but if we take away from this that sometimes there are some skilled individuals involved, maybe we will take security a little more seriously.

Also it probably helped that there has been a lot of talk recently about this area in the news, in this article making it to the front page.

Just curious, was your site hosted at the same place?

Not as far as I'm aware, no (I'm not directly involved with the operations / hosting)

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