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As of Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 8:00pm EST, it seems like the main website operated by EC-Council has been hacked. On the site is an image of Edward Snowden’s passport and text stating, “owned by certified unethical software security professional -Eugene Belford”. Eugene Belford, is a character from the movie “Hackers”.

Edward Snowden, the man who turned whistle-blower against the National Security Agency (NSA) and revealed its global spying program, was trained by EC-Council as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).

The hack maybe a DNS hijacking attack, the information below kind of point that way:

Server: 75.75.75.75

Address: 75.75.75.75#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: eccouncil.org

Address: 93.174.95.82

As of Feb. 23, it seems as though EC-Council has not gained control of their website. An update was posted on the EC-Council site stating:

“owned by certified unethical software security professional

Obligatory link: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ec-council/ -Eugene Belford

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”

Cybersecurity Agreement Signed in Rockville, Maryland

2014-02-19/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) joined Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) came together to sign an agreement on Tuesday to establish a “National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence” in Rockville, MD.

The center will be a place where private businesses, academics and government can work together on ways to prevent hacking incidents such as the breach of credit card information at Target and Nieman Marcus last year.

The county also hopes it will stimulate the creation of new high-paying jobs in the cybersecurity sector.