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

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:04:47 +0100
From: "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <lists@...osecurity.ch>
To: Thor (Hammer of God) <thor@...merofgod.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Evidence of fake security research from
	SecurStar	GmbH

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.
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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
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> Ok, now we have the evidence: The research was a fake security  
> research arranged for a marketing campaign.
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> They was able cheat most journalists, bloggers and security magazines.
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> I don't remember in all my life a so irresponsible and dirty  
> marketing trick in the security world, abusing of hackers reputations.
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> 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:
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> Evidence that infosecurityguard.com/notrax is SecurStar GmbH – A  
> fake independent research on voice crypto (by me)
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> Dishonest security: The SecurStart GmbH case (by me)
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> Debunking Infosecurityguard identity from Matteo Flora .
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> It's hilarious and unbelievable that a security company had done  
> something like this.
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> Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
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> On 30/gen/10, at 15:51, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> i don't know how many of you have read about the analysis done on http://infosecurityguard.com 
>  .
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> I have made a detailed analysis of their initiative and the result  
> is that:
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> - 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
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> Below my analysis on this (read it carefully):
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> http://infosecurity.ch
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> Maybe it's interesting, maybe not, but for sure some facts are very  
> relevant!
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> Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
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