ClassicCars.com hacked by Indonesian hackers

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Jack

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Late yesterday evening a fellow Sophos employee tipped me off that the website classiccars.com had been defaced. While it's not shocking news that another site of the millions on the internet has been hacked, this one was unusual in that the defacement seemed to be nothing more than an advertisement for the hackers.
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Ten years ago hacking for bragging rights was a somewhat common practice, but today most attacks are more silent and are designed to steal information. I poked around to find out more about who was behind the attack and how they are compromising the security of the sites they are attacking. [....]

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