August 12th, 2007 the United Nations website (www.un.org) was defaced in an attempt to CyberProtest “Ysrail” and “USA” citing “peace for ever”. This message appeared on pages generally reserved for quotes and speeches from the secretary general Ban Ki-moon as well as on other well know websites.

The hackers website states the CyberProtect’s objective, “that the powerful have no right to oppress the powerless”. The website also mentions other websites they allegedly hacked, including Harvard University, The UN Environment Program, Toyota, and Nestle.

Web applications are commonly a problem for most organization’s security strategy as they are not protected by the corporate firewall. It is said 75% of all cyber attacks are done at the web application level.

Monitoring patches and security notices for common out of the box web applications is very effective at minimizing your risk. Regular web vulnerability scanning and server hardening is the best way to ensure you are protected.

If you do e-commerce on your website, you also have to keep PCI Compliance in mind as non-compliance penalties are as high as $500,000. Web vulnerability scanning covers some of the PCI Compliance requirements.

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