3 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to TjNull (real, well-known OSCP community figure) had no locatable source and was de-attributed; fabricated-precision job-posting-frequency percentages (65-70%/15-20%) were…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
Every page with a public CitePep trust record: what was checked, what was corrected, and who did the work. 940 pages across 2 publications.
3 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to TjNull (real, well-known OSCP community figure) had no locatable source and was de-attributed; fabricated-precision job-posting-frequency percentages (65-70%/15-20%) were…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: two separate quotes attributed to Darril Gibson (real CompTIA author) in the same article had no locatable source and were de-attributed to plain prose.
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: quotes attributed to Pete Herzog (ISECOM, with no clear established connection to CompTIA CySA+ commentary) and Josh Lemon (real SANS instructor) both had no locatable source and were de-attri…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to 'Diane Barrett, CASP+, security educator and CompTIA CE contributor' had no verifiable source and was de-attributed; a claim that 'CEUs are added immediately upon submiss…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: two separate quotes attributed to Professor Messer in the same article (one with a fabricated-precision '70%' statistic) had no locatable source and were de-attributed to plain prose.
Corrected by Emir Baycan
3 flagged issues verified: a quote attributed to Jason Dion (real security instructor) had no locatable source and was de-attributed; an uncited '45-55% first-attempt pass rate... community reports' claim was softened t…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: a fabricated '79 percent first-attempt pass rate across readers' claim (and a related '45-55 percent' compressed-timeline figure) tied to an unverified internal tracking claim were softened to…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: fabricated-precision reader pass-rate statistics (78%/72%) tied to an undefined 'reader dataset' were softened to a qualitative comparison; two unattributed 'direct quotes from readers who ema…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
4 flagged issues verified as part of a pervasive fabricated 'cert research team' / reader-survey framing running through most of the article: a claimed proprietary 'readers tracked over the past two years' dataset was s…
Corrected by Emir Baycan
2 flagged issues verified: quotes attributed to Professor Messer and Mike Chapple (both real named instructors/authors) had no locatable source and were de-attributed to plain prose.
Corrected by Emir Baycan