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This was just a hack of a random e-commerce site. They (like thousands of similar small businesses) sell equipment to police and weekend warriors.

The title is a bit misleading, the site had a "Secured by GoDaddy" logo on it, because the site had purchased its SSL certificate from GoDaddy and they throw the security logo thing in for free.

EDIT: My bad. They also paid the $4.99/month for the "Hacker Safe" logo.

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Notice how they have 2 godaddy badges. The one of the right is the SSL one, as you're describing. The one on the left however, actually reads: "Hacker Proof... Scanned by...".

http://www.specialforces.com/catalog/view/theme/sfg/image/ic...

Stunning.

GoDaddy claims to offer website security as a service:

http://www.godaddy.com/security/website-security.aspx

Under the "Common Threats" tab, they claim to find "spyware, back doors, SQL injection opportunities and cross-site scripting (XSS) holes".

They also imply that they check input fields "properly", since "When fields aren't checked properly, hackers can insert code that exposes everything in your database."

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