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