Defacement
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Defacement is the method of modifying the content of a website in such a way that it becomes "vandalized" or embarrassing to the website owner.
MWESANS Glossary of Security Terms
Senses
Wordset Dictionary
the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- disfigurationdisfigurement
- plural
- Defacements
- possessive
- Defacement's
- pluralpossessive
- Defacements'