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The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, the internet registry for the region, has admitted it left at least a portion of its Whois SQL database, which contains sensitive information, facing the public internet for three months. During that maintenance effort, a dump from APNIC's Whois SQL database was copied to a Google Cloud storage bucket that Sanjaya said "Was believed to be private".
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Registrar apologies as punters wait for spam tsunami Domain name registrar EasyDNS has 'fessed up to accidentally leaking cloaked contact details for about 1,500 domain owners in Whois query...
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WHOIS, the searchable "phonebook" of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR -- or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is.
Two cybersecurity and privacy attorneys recently argued that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will interfere with the availability of the WHOIS database and will seriously hinder the...
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Whois maintainer for Asia Pacific notifies customers of an error where hashed authentication details for were inadvertently available for download.
The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the non-profit organization that provides Internet addressing services in the Asia-Pacific region, informed the community on Monday of a...