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Spy agency employees caught oversharing on LinkedIn and Facebook

Belgiums state security agency members found promoting themselves on LinkedIn and Facebook. The profiles appear to belong to analysts working for the State Security Agency (Surete de lEtat) and OCAM. The danger for organizations like the CIA, NSA and other intelligence services is that those members might become the targets of sophisticated phishing attacks by adversaries who use the publicly available information on LinkedIn to learn more about the individuals and to construct a social graph of their professional and personal contacts. That information might then be used to push malicious software or other attacks to the intelligence agency employee.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/27/spy-agency-employees-caught-oversharing-on-linkedin-and-facebook/

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