Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity

Jul 19

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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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Soldier’s Facebook post about raid gets him jail

Mar 06

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Meanwhile, in the United States, the Department of Defense is loosening the security in regards to social networks … glorious!

Soldier’s Facebook post about raid gets him jail
by Shira Rubin – Mar. 3, 2010 03:15 PM
Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel’s military has “unfriended” one of its own — after a combat soldier potentially updated Israel’s enemies on Facebook.

The military said Wednesday that a planned raid on a West Bank village was called off after the soldier disclosed its details online. The military said the soldier posted the time and location of the raid on his Facebook page, saying that troops were planning on “cleaning up” the village.

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