Navy Memorial site compromised

Unfortunately it seems that the official site of the US Navy Memorial was recently compromised, with the addition of a particularly wordy message for the admins hidden away in a subdirectory, rather than the more obvious target of the frontpage which was left untouched:


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As you can see from the Google listing above, the defacement takes the form of a rather foul mouthed rant on an otherwise empty page:


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We’ve notified the admins, and the page in question is currently blank with the site running normally so hopefully they now have things under control. There doesn’t seem to be any intention of placing malicious files there, but it might be worth being careful if visiting navymemorial(dot)org for a few days until it has a 100% clean bill of health.

Christopher Boyd