Web site defacement is so popular these days that the defacement mirror sites, which record what's been hacked on a daily basis, are struggling to keep up. Attrition.org decided to back out of providing its mirror service last year, Safemode.org stopped its defacement coverage a few months back, and then in mid-February this year, Alldas.de announced on its site that it was closing due to `total burnout and frustration'.. . .
Web site defacement is so popular these days that the defacement mirror sites, which record what's been hacked on a daily basis, are struggling to keep up. Attrition.org decided to back out of providing its mirror service last year, Safemode.org stopped its defacement coverage a few months back, and then in mid-February this year, Alldas.de announced on its site that it was closing due to `total burnout and frustration'.

The Alldas statement is slightly misleading because some of the team are continuing with the defacement archive at a new site, www.alldas.org , but they're going to have their work cut out to keep it up-to-date. We reported last month that malicious online activity had fallen after the 11 September attacks but was predicted to rise again in 2002, so the amount of work required is only going to increase.