full-disclosure - Re: Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH

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Message-ID: <optid.4647afe476.A876923A2C9CD44BA76505F58ECF089DAC28D6@gandalf.optimum.bm>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:48:46 +0000
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <Thor@...merofgod.com>
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Evidence of fake security research from
 SecurStar	GmbH

What journalists, bloggers, and security magazines?  I've not seen anything about these people anywhere.

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From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Fabio Pietrosanti
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:41 PM
To: full-disclosure
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Evidence of fake security research from SecurStar GmbH

Ok, 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<http://infosecurity.ch/20100201/evidence-that-infosecurityguard-comnotrax-is-securstar-gmbh-a-fake-independent-research-on-voice-crypto/> (by me)
Dishonest security: The SecurStart GmbH case<http://infosecurity.ch/20100201/dishonest-security-the-securstart-gmbh-case/> (by me)
Debunking Infosecurityguard identity<http://www.lastknight.com/2010/01/31/debunking-infosecurityguard-com-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.ch

Maybe it's interesting, maybe not, but for sure some facts are very relevant!

Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)

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