Protecting your site against defacement

by "John Aitchison" <jaitchis(at)hwy.com.au>

Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:24:07 +1000
To:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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Hi all

There has been a lot of publicity recently about people defacing websites. 

I don't understand how this is done .. surely they have to be able to get 
(or guess through repeated attempts) your username and password 
in order to be able to FTP in to your site? 

What sort of reasonable precautions can be taken to guard against 
a web site defacement?

thanks in advance for any insights

John Aitchison

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