It is hosted on a third-party server which does not contain any customer or other sensitive data. She recommended subscribing for automatic Microsoft security updates, keeping up to date with security alerts and hiring specialist security help if the expertise is not available in-house. Websites are regularly defaced on the Web. The trend has been slow to reach Ireland because not many commercial websites here operate on their own leased lines. Such hosting arrangements have the advantage that it is far easier to defend a cluster of sites behind one connection, but even that approach is not failure proof.
Website defacement is like the Internet equivalent of graffiti.
The tools are widely available. Cracking scripts that require little skill to run are available online. As Irish businesses become more interconnected, attacks like these will increase. With banks, shops and even health records being put on the Web, security will become increasingly critical.