http://www.infosecnews.org/ec-council-website-defaced-twice-in-a-weekend/
By William Knowles
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
February 23, 2014
Today's defacement of the EC-Council (the second time this weekend) by
Eugene Belford (a.k.a. The Plague) threatens the compromise of the 60,000+
security professionals who currently hold CEH certifications.
Individuals who have achieved EC-Council certifications include the US
Army, the FBI, Microsoft, IBM, the United Nations, National Security
Agency (NSA). Also the United States Department of Defense has included
the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker program into its Directive 8570,
making it as one of the mandatory standards to be achieved by Computer
Network Defenders Service Providers (CND-SP)
In the most recent defacement, Eugene Belford has stated that "P.S It
seems like lots of you are missing the point here, I'm sitting on
thousands of passports belonging to LE (and .mil) officials" leading the
InfoSec News staff to believe considering the mail on the defacement page
is from Edward Snowden's Yokota Air Base e-mail asking for an exam code,
with a copy of his U.S. Passport and a letter from John A. Niescier, an
Information Security Officer with the Department of Defense Special
Representative, Japan stating that he has verified Edward J. Snowden has
at least five years professional information security experience in the
required domains.
Eugene Belford has potentially sixty thousand other similar statements
from undercover law enforcement agents, intelligence professionals, and
members of the United States Military, creating an additional quagmire and
has you wondering why the EC-Council has all this personally identifiable
information sitting unprotected online?
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