June 14, 2010
I was cruising around the city in my motorized air conditioned box this weekend, and a billboard happened to catch my eye. I suppose that's what they're meant to do, but this one stood out as quite the odd duck.
Now like most people, I have the understanding that the first tenet of advertising is usually that it will promise something the product likely cannot deliver. That's just how it works. Now that being said, companies will usually limit their lies to believable possibilities that fall squarely in the "little white" category. Not in this case, though. This one pretty much beats you over the head with its ridiculousness. I wasn't about to let it go, however. Having spent over a decade in the field of computer and network security I really had to know more about this very obvious scam.
We start off with a company called Ligatt Security International. Apparently it's their goal to "Protect the World's Computers, one CPU at a time"; an admirable, albeit pointless effort since attackers are typically far more interested in the contents of the hard drive.
Since they have billboards locally, I was curious about where they were located so I looked at their domain registration. It lists their address as 269 South Beverly Dr. #585, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. What do we have here? A small, multi-level multiple retail storefront. Strangely enough, however, that address and suite actually belongs to a Boys and Girls Club and Ligatt's website makes no mention of this address. As of March 17th, their website lists a mailing address of 11209 National Blvd. #173, Los Angeles, CA 90064, which turns out to be yet another small retail strip-mall housing a Radio Shack, a Baja Bud's Restaurant, and a few other things.
Their site also listed an address of 6991 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Bldg. 400, Norcross, GA 30092. But that address belongs to a company called IntelliSoft. So where is Ligatt? It seems that their address is currently 6050 Peachtree Pkwy. Norcross, GA 30092.
That's a lot of bouncing around for a company to do.
During my searches around the Ligatt company name and its CEO Gregory Evans, I found some impressive coverage by Attrition. They've pretty much spelled out everything on why Ligatt is a scam and their CEO is a fraud, much better than I ever could. I think it's quite obvious that this Evans guy is trying to spin himself as a security expert without actually knowing anything.
It isn't working. Turn in your shirt, Greg.
(12:45)
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