http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/ligatt_security_subpoena_quashed/ [A little more on Gregory D. Evans / LIGATT Security as it seems there's never a dull moment with this saga. It appears Greg Evans' Twitter account was hacked with this message. 'It's my birthday, so I thought I'd "air" on the side of transparency: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=3k8jrMJn ' - WK] > By Dan Goodin in San Francisco > The Register > 31st January 2011 > > [More backround on Gregory D. Evans / LIGATT Security from Attrition.org > http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/gregory_evans/ - WK] > > A judge in Georgia has scolded a controversial security figure for > improperly subpoenaing Yahoo! and Twitter in an attempt to get user > names and passwords belonging to some 25 researchers. > > Gregory D. Evans, CEO of Ligatt Security and the self-proclaimed > "World's No. 1 Hacker", sought the the highly personal information in a > lawsuit he brought last year accusing the researchers of bashing his > company's penny stock. Over the past year, shares have fallen from about > $2.80 to $0.0004, public information shows. Most of that precipitous > drop happened prior to claims that surfaced in June that huge chunks of > an e-book purportedly written by Evans were lifted from other hacking > manuals without the original authors' permission. > > The suit named Chris John Riley, Ben Rothke, and other security > professionals who publicly claimed their works were plagiarized. Shortly > after it was filed, attorneys for Evans subpoenaed Yahoo! and Twitter > for information that included the defendants' usernames, passwords, > emails sent and received, and blog postings. Last week, the judge > hearing the case squashed the subpoenas and said they violated several > provisions of Georgia law. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Wed Feb 02 2011 - 23:51:33 PST
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