You may be interested to know that several web developers in our area are using ChangeDetect to track changes for their sites. It's a useful alert that someone has hacked into one's pages.

A host just sent to us an email about July the 6th. A day when a group of hackers are supposed to begin wholesale defacement of web sites. Apparently for bragging rights or a modern day "joy ride"...

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HACKER_WARNINGS?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

We offer ChangeDetect, a FREE web page monitoring service, to alert you if a hacker has defaced your web site.

http://www.changedetect.com/?r=wht

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We just received a lot of new registrations... I presume from this post alone. WHT is great!

If you do sign up, we do ask that you use valid contact information. Please check our terms of service for more information.

Thanks, I signed up, great offer! Thanks again!

Thanks for the feedback, Scott.

Posting here on this board is awesome.

Anyway if you do sign up, be sure to note that ChangeDetect does not handle active content by default. Active content is web page content that changes all of the time.

So you would not want to monitor for example a busy forum that changes every hour... because you will receive a change notification too frequently.

With ChangeDetect however you can monitor web pages for the appearance and disappearance of keywords or size changes etc. This helps avoid getting notification for irrelevent changes.

http://www.changedetect.com/changedetect/FAQ.asp#activecontent

Thanks!
ChangeDetect

Very nice offer. We'll be monitoring ourselves all day tomorrow, but this is a nice tool to try out and I've signed up.

Excellent privacy policy as well. Simple and to the point. :)

Thanks for the complement Coach.

It appears though that this hacking contest was much ado about nothing...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/1982704