How to monitor your website for defacement attacks?
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Defacement is one of the famous attack techniques to take down the website and hurt the business. By defacing, the hacker changes the content, visual appearance of the whole site, homepage or particular web page. It’s so common that almost 10.7% of all hacks are from defacement attacks ( Source ) . Even companies like Google and Microsoft have faced such attacks.
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Almost all web applications store some configuration data in their environment or config files (WordPress users will recognize the wp-config.