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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PCW/InfoWorld Loses Respect Because of Roger A Grimes

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I just read an article by Roger A. Grimes entitled, Is the Chinese Government Really Behind Cyberattacks?: Circumstantial evidence alone should not condemn Beijing of sponsoring hacking of U.S. companies.  From the subtitle I was interested in what angle this guy was going to take, so i read on … only to be sadly disappointed in identifying yet another poser.

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