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APNIC left a dump from its Whois SQL database in a public Google Cloud bucket
2021-06-22 01:08

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".

Week in review: WHOIS after GDPR, April Patch Tuesday forecast, how to Marie Kondo your data
2019-04-07 17:56

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Georgia Tech data breach: 1.3M students and staff potentially affected The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly...

WHOIS after GDPR: A quick recap for CISOs
2019-04-05 05:45

2018 was a big year for data protection with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last May — forcing CISOs and other professionals to rethink how the personal data...

Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway
2018-11-02 19:33

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...

Week in review: How GDPR affects WHOIS, and what CISOs can learn from Tyrion
2018-06-04 01:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: CIOs are forced to compromise between faster innovation and perfectly working software An independent global survey of...

ICANN Launches GDPR Lawsuit to Clarify the Future of WHOIS
2018-05-31 21:36

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.

Will GDPR be the death of WHOIS?
2018-05-31 12:20

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...

Deleted WHOIS Data: An Unintended Consequence of GDPR
2018-05-17 09:54

GDPR Will Impact the Availability of WHOIS Data to Security Researchers and Investigators read more

Whois Maintainer Accidentally Makes Password Hashes Available For Download
2017-10-24 18:23

Whois maintainer for Asia Pacific notifies customers of an error where hashed authentication details for were inadvertently available for download.

APNIC Whois Error Led to Exposure of Passwords
2017-10-24 05:38

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...