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Originally Posted by Bigjohn
why do they spend all their effort defacing and hacking? They should be writing awesome applications instead...
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I've always wondered the same, what is the joy in vandalism?
However I don't think it is about that so much anymore. The trend is now that the more talented hackers (not the immature script kiddy bums) are being *paid* by spammers, thiefs, and terrorists to write hacks for their needs.
Grab your raw logs and have a look. If you don't see hack attempts I'd be very surprised. Back track some of them and you'll bump into some very unsavoury people. I've seen a few that could very well have been serious terror groups.
It is up to all the site owners to keep their sites secure. I wish people cared but too many don't, they just want that blingy piece of crap on their site no matter what it does to everyone else. It only takes one per server and no doubt that number is much higher.