Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity
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Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity
Intel, defense specialists fell for ruse in test
By Shaun Waterman
8:07 p.m., Sunday, July 18, 2010
Call her the Mata Hari of cyberspace.
Robin Sage, according to her profiles on Facebook and other social-networking websites, was an attractive, flirtatious 25-year-old woman working as a “cyber threat analyst” at the U.S. Navy’s Network Warfare Command. Within less than a month, she amassed nearly 300 social-network connections among security specialists, military personnel and staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors.
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