attrition: advisory errata archive vendor_fail news charlatan lazlo security_comp_fail going_postal rant box_of_shit movie_review book_review music_review contest buy_shit
twitter: technical_difficulties unsolicited_updates foursquare wefollow musings imdb dmfail
hobbies: critter_of_the_day squirrel guinea_pig stalking
related: osf datalossdb conference osvdb
type: quote screenshot photo video tweet audio question chat link
btw.. @jamesattrition is a sock puppet for @cattechie / @vaidehinbc
…and it seems @caks2257 is Greg Evans’ sockpuppet of the day.
Over one year ago, we documented a case where Evans was plagiarizing content for his Twitter feed. Since then, he has demonstrated a clear pattern of plagiarism and copyright violation. Even after his ‘National CyberSecurity’ web site was ousted by GoDaddy for repeated copyright violations (scraping entire articles and re-posting without permission), Evans continues to do it.
Even after all this time, Evans still plagiarizes people he hates.

So many choices!
Appears Evans missed his hearing yesterday in the Doe 8 case. The motion filed afterward is full of deception. Hope the court sees through…
Evans forgot to register it, someone else did now. Didn’t he bash others for not registering domains?
#LIGATT stock activity -> SPFM name change to “High Tech Crime Solutions” -> Evans steps down as CEO = transparent plan Greg..
The next charlatan write up will be different, and jeez, it’s taking a while to put together. *tease*
“Computer Networking Handbook” (ISBN: 978-1-58909-666-0) is a 48 page book that “has a simple approach to computer networking, protocols and network hardware”. The book is published by Bookstand Publishing (a company that facilitates self publishing), authored by Dr. Ali Jahangiri, with a cover price of $19.95. At roughly 41 cents a page, this book is costly by most standards.
PATNA: Wanna avail of telephone facility without paying the bills? Get a tip or two from Ankit Fadia. Hack into the BSNL website and remove your name from the list of consumers whose bills are not paid.
Thanks to Ankit Fadia’s web site and @jason_andress on Twitter, I learned that Fadia was speaking in Denver again. January 5th, from 5:30 to 8:30 at TAG restaurant in downtown Denver, he was speaking to the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Due to my proximity to this venue (1.5 miles), I figured I would drop by and ask him questions about his plagiarism and claims to the media.
“Network Intrusion Alert: An Ethical Hacking Guide to Intrusion Detection” written by Ankit Fadia and Manu Zacharia (ISBN 1598634143 and 9781598634143) contains significant amounts of plagiarized material. Published in 2008, the book uses material from a wide variety of sources to varying degrees. In many cases, entire paragraphs are used with little or no alteration, and no citation or credit. This large-scale plagiarism is detailed below. The book, published by Thomson Course Technology, was technically reviewed by Arlie Hartman, who apparently did not check if the material was original.
Ankit Fadia’s career is built on the cornerstone of him writing a ‘hacking’ book when he was 14, which he used as a means of establishing his expertise on the subject of computer security. Since the book ‘Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking’ (ISBN 0333 93679 5) was published in 2001, Fadia has not been able to keep sales figures straight…