Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity

Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity

Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity

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InfoSec News: Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/18/fictitious-femme-fatale-fooled-cybersecurity/
By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times 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.
A handful of pictures on her Facebook page included one of her at a party posing in thigh-high knee socks and a skull-and-crossbones bikini captioned, "doing what I do best."
"Sorry to say, I'm not a Green Beret! Just a cute girl stopping by to say hey!" she rhymingly proclaimed on her Twitter page, concluding, "My life is about info sec [information security] all the way!"
And so it apparently was. She was an avid user of LinkedIn - a social-networking site for professionals sometimes described as "Facebook for grown-ups." Her connections on it included men working for the nation's most senior military officer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and for one of the most secret government agencies of all, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which builds, launches and runs U.S. spy satellites. Others included a senior intelligence official in the U.S. Marine Corps, the chief of staff for a U.S. congressman, and several senior executives at defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. Almost all were seasoned security professionals.
But Robin Sage did not exist.
Her profile was a ruse set up by security consultant Thomas Ryan as part of an effort to expose weaknesses in the nation's defense and intelligence communities - what Mr. Ryan calls "an independent 'red team' exercise."
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15 nations agree to start working together to reduce cyberwarfare threat

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InfoSec News: 15 nations agree to start working together to reduce cyberwarfare threat: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071605882.html
By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer July 17, 2010
A group of nations -- including the United States, China and Russia -- have for the first time signaled a willingness to engage in reducing the [...]

New virus targets industrial secrets

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InfoSec News: New virus targets industrial secrets: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071710-new-virus-targets-industrial.html
By Robert McMillan IDG News Service July 17, 2010
Siemens is warning customers of a new and highly sophisticated virus that targets the computers used to manage large-scale industrial control [...]

Cyber protection

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InfoSec News: Cyber protection: http://www.sbsun.com/business/ci_15535794
By Rebecca U. Cho Staff Writer The Sun 07/16/2010
A shortage of experts to protect the U.S. against hackers has led the government to cast a wide net for talent - and next week that net lands at Cal Poly Pomona. [...]

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-28

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InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-28: ========================================================================
The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-07-10 - 2010-07-17
This week: 106 advisories [...]

Microsoft confirms 'nasty' Windows zero-day bug

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InfoSec News: Microsoft confirms 'nasty' Windows zero-day bug: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179299/Microsoft_confirms_nasty_Windows_zero_day_bug
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld July 17, 2010
Microsoft on Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives. [...]

Linux Advisory Watch: July 17th, 2010

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InfoSec News: Linux Advisory Watch: July 17th, 2010: +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LinuxSecurity.com Linux Advisory Watch | | July 17th, 2010 Volume 11, Number 29 | | | [...]

Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable operating system ever!

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InfoSec News: Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable operating system ever!: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/damn-vulnerable-linux-the-most-vulnerable-and-exploitable-operating-system-ever-20100717/
By Matthew Humphries Geek.com July 17, 2010
Usually, when installing a new operating system the hope is that it's as up-to-date as possible. [...]

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