The following fiasco is amazing on several fronts. First, Gregory D. Evans and LIGATT continue to do large-scale plagiarism of other news sources. Taking entire articles from mainstream press, they remove the byline and post it as their own to LIGATT's "nationalcybersecurity.com" web site. Second, in this case, Evans then issues a press release touting the "featured" story that was plagiarized. Third, in the press release, Evans credits the original article to Reuters, not FoxBusiness where it was originally taken from.
The original article on FoxBusiness:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/11/19/businesses-risk-cyber-espionage/:
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Underscoring the seriousness of the threat, a Senate report released earlier this week revealed that last April China briefly rerouted through its servers 15% of the entire world's Internet traffic, including commercial sites such as those of Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT).
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Evans then rips the entire article for nationalcybersecurity.com, removing the byline of Matt Egan and replacing it with "ashavers":
http://nationalcybersecurity.com/?p=40809:
Featured: Cyber Spies Pose Looming Threat
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Underscoring the seriousness of the threat, a Senate report released earlier this week revealed that last April China briefly rerouted through its servers 15% of the entire world's Internet traffic, including commercial sites such as those of Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT).
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Days later, Evans issues a press release touting the "top news story of the day", crediting Reuters. The original piece was written by Matt Egan of FoxBusiness, and the article used one picture from Reuters. Evans apparently did not read the byline or understand how it was credited. The press release goes on to use a piece of the FoxBusiness article without attribution and tells people to "read the full featured story" on www.NationalCyberSecurity.com:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/is-china-no-1-in-cyber-espionage-111035789.html:
National Cyber Security Story of the Day
ATLANTA, Nov. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- National Cyber Security, by LIGATT Security International, (Pink Sheets: LGTT) an online cyber security reference and news portal website, today announces Cyber Tuesday's news story of the day, "Cyber Spies Pose Looming Threat", by Reuters.
Underscoring the seriousness of the threat, a Senate report released earlier this week revealed that last April China briefly rerouted through its servers 15% of the entire world's Internet Traffic, including commercial sites such as those of Yahoo! and Microsoft. By doing this, China can capture emails, credit card information, corporate security and anything else that funnels through their networks.
In 2008, the FBI discovered that valuable data about oil discoveries were stolen from energy companies ExxonMobil (XOM), ConocoPhillips (COP) and Marathon Oil (MRO). Some evidence pointed to China's hand in the incident.
To read the full featured story "Cyber Spies Pose Looming Threat" visit www.NationalCyberSecurity.com.
FoxBusiness makes it crystal clear that their material is not permitted for distribution or reproduction:
Attrition.org has taken screenshots of the above pages, should any be removed after we contact FoxBusiness to make them aware of the plagiarism and copyright violation.
