The website of the UP Diliman University Virtual Learning Environment (UVLê) was defaced last Sunday, March 7.
The defacement involves the following message: “UP, DINGGIN NINYO ANG ISANG NATATANGING PROTESTA.”
This is one example of hackers defacing websites to protest social and political injustice around the globe.
UP Diliman Administration published online a statement, which said: "We are still investigating the circumstances that led to the defacement of the UVLê website on 7 March 2021. We will make sure to do what is fair and just to all concerned. Rest assured that the University has backups of the system and will restore services at the soonest possible time even while the investigation is ongoing."
Web defacement is typically done by hackers who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. Using techniques such as Remote Code Execution, SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting etc. Common targets of defacement are religious websites, government websites, bank websites and corporate websites.