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Re: Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH
From: "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <lists () infosecurity ch>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:04:47 +0100
Infosecurity Magazine was cheated: InfoSecurity Magazine The Register was cheated: The Register Network World was cheated: Network World And a if you read on google there was a lot of media coverage.They was very smart to arrange that Psycological operations, unfortunately for them they was discovered not being able to preserve their anonymity behind the anonymous http://infosecurityguard.com website .
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) On 01/feb/10, at 00:48, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
What journalists, bloggers, and security magazines? I’ve not seen anything about these people anywhere.tFrom: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk ] On Behalf Of Fabio PietrosantiSent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:41 PM To: full-disclosureSubject: [Full-disclosure] Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbHOk, now we have the evidence: The research was a fake security research arranged for a marketing campaign.They was able cheat most journalists, bloggers and security magazines.I don't remember in all my life a so irresponsible and dirty marketing trick in the security world, abusing of hackers reputations.Read below, they leaked the IP of the anonymous author of http://infosecurityguard.com and it's confirmed that it come from SecurStar GmbH office:Evidence that infosecurityguard.com/notrax is SecurStar GmbH – A fake independent research on voice crypto (by me)Dishonest security: The SecurStart GmbH case (by me) Debunking Infosecurityguard identity from Matteo Flora .It's hilarious and unbelievable that a security company had done something like this.Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) On 30/gen/10, at 15:51, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Hi all,i don't know how many of you have read about the analysis done on http://infosecurityguard.com .I have made a detailed analysis of their initiative and the result is that:- it's most probably a camouflage marketing initiative and not a independent security research - they consider a security context where local device has been compromised (no software can be secured in that case)- they do not consider cryptographic security arguments Below my analysis on this (read it carefully): http://infosecurity.chMaybe it's interesting, maybe not, but for sure some facts are very relevant!Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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Current thread:
- On voice crypto product cracking: a nice story naif (Jan 30)
- Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH naif (Jan 31)
- Re: Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH Thor (Hammer of God) (Jan 31)
- Re: Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) (Jan 31)
- Re: Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH Thor (Hammer of God) (Jan 31)
- Re: Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH Thor (Hammer of God) (Jan 31)
- Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH naif (Jan 31)