General Security

EC-Council Update: 2/25/14 07:00

February 26, 2014

DNS Propagation is still in process around the world however major DNS providers have updated to the new data. With respect to our release yesterday, our Internal Response team has been closely monitoring our third party vendors.

General Security

New free online software security training courses

February 25, 2014

The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) is a non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to increasing trust in information and communications technology products and services through the advancement of effective software assurance methods.

General Security

EC-Council Statement to Recent Security Breach

February 25, 2014

On February 22nd, 2014 at approximately 8PM EST, the domain www.eccouncil.org was redirected to an ISP in Finland. Immediately EC Council's Internal Security Response team initiated a comprehensive investigation.

General Security

EC-Council Site Hacked, But There is a Bigger Issue Now…

February 24, 2014

Over the weekend, and as of today at 11:00am EST, EC-Council, the organization famous for administering the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) as well as the Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) got hacked by an individual who claims to be a “certified unethical software security professional” going by the alias Eugene Belford. Eugene Belford was actually a character in the movie “Hackers” which came out in 1995 directed by Iain Softley as well as staring Angelina Jolie.

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