"Two defacements in a single week is normally nothing, but two extremely high-profile defacements from the same registrar in the same week is a definite trend," Hay said.
But with the practice spreading in recent years, according to 311 complaints, the city's Transportation Department has proposed a sizable deterrent: quintupling the fine for "street defacement" to $250, from $50 — where it has stood for more than 20 years.
"We're aware that campaigns and related organizations and individuals are targeted by actors with a variety of motivations — from philosophical differences to espionage — and capabilities from defacements to intrusions," Brian P. Hale, Clapper's spokesman, said in a statement.
"We're aware that campaigns and related organizations and individuals are targeted by actors with a variety of motivations— from philosophical differences to espionage — and capabilities— from defacements to intrusions," Clapper's spokesman Brian Hale said in a statement, deferring to the FBI for details on specific incidents.
In that time apart from being the UK security lead on the establishment of the Euromillions lottery he has helped his employers recover from, and mitigate, numerous Cyber security incidents ranging from DDOS, data loss, website defacement, malware, malicious insider and account hijack.
Aside from the increase in Web site defacement, he said, the level of virus writing and hacking has not risen sharply in recent weeks.
This is the first one that appeared, back in 1983: And here's another one, from a decade later: Back then, our cause for concern was mostly confined to how The Donald's oversized ego aggressively was defacing our urban space: But now, as the defacement has potentially ascended to the highest office in the land, the cartoonists of The New Yorker have been roused again to do their civic duty.
The graffiti has become a promotion for Neck Face, the pseudonym of a 20-year-old dropout from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan who has parlayed public defacement and a very savvy publicity sense into gallery showings in California, London and New York.
The vivaciously sexy sculptures on certain Hindu temples were excluded from the photographic record and in some cases narrowly escaped defacement.
