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EC-COUNCIL Website has been Hacked, Snowden’s Passport on the Site

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

ECATEL

 

 

 

 

 

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”

Snowden documents reveal: NSA gathers U.S Citizens’ Social Connections’ data

Interesting article from our content partners at HackersNewsBulletin.com:

Latest Snowden documents reveal that National Security Agency has been exploiting US citizens’ personal information drawn from its huge collection of data to create  sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections.

According to nytimes, these Graphs can help them identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information.

Leaked documents also reveal—for examine Americans’ networks of associations for foreign intelligence purposes, Analysis of phone call and email logs have been allowing by the spy agency since November 2010, after N.S.A. officials lifted restrictions on the practice.

The policy shift was intended to help the agency “discover and track” connections between intelligence targets overseas and people in the US, a January 2011 NSA memorandum cited in the documents explained.

According to the nytimes’ report, the agency has been allowed to enlarge the communications’ data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data.

NSA officials declined to comment on, which phone and email databases are used to create the social network diagrams. The agency did say that the large database of Americans’ domestic phone call records, which was revealed by Mr. Snowden in June and caused bipartisan alarm in Washington, was excluded.

Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, told the NYT:

Read the rest here.