14 DAY TRIAL // Later this week, we’ll publish an interview with Alberto Redi, the CEO of Security Lab, the company that owns the renowned defacement archive Zone-H.org.
Until we publish the full interview, we’re going to provide you with a few interesting facts we've learned from Redi.
One notable aspect is that 665,367 defacements have already been submitted to zone-h.org in 2013. In 2012, the number of defaced websites submitted to the service dropped to around 1.2 million from 1.6 million submissions made in 2011.
Last year, we witnessed the emergence of several defacement archive websites, which might explain the drop in Zone-H submissions.
However, Redi has told us that he is not too concerned with the competition.
“Every now and then some new web site of this kind pops-up. Most of the time they disappear after a while. To run a web site like this requires time and money, to be good willing is not enough. And zone-h is there since more than 10 years, with a constant grow trend,” Redi noted.
Here is the total number of defacements submitted each year.
2001 - 21.097 2002 - 77.766 2003 - 285.951 2004 - 392.459 2005 - 493.720 2006 - 752.039 2007 - 480.622 2008 - 517.406 2009 - 544.097 2010 - 1.419,388 2011 - 1.608,929 2012 - 1.192,326 2013 - 665.367
Total number so far: 8.456.434.