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World Economic Forum<\/a> released an article today stating how a NATO experiment used fake Facebook accounts, called “sockpuppets” to trick soldiers into sharing sensitive information.<\/p>\n

“… the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence details an experiment it ran to trick serving members of the armed forces. While the authors won\u2019t say which country\u2019s armed forces, they are at least clear about what they were trying to achieve.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose it was to “probe the lines” to determine the vulnerability of militaries by their troops sharing information on social media.<\/p>\n

“While most organizations have strict policies regarding security, the armed forces are steeped in it \u2013 from support staff to frontline troops and across all ranks. Even so, soldiers preparing for a NATO military exercise shared details about it with the people behind the false accounts, which demonstrates the ease with which malicious actors or state agents could obtain sensitive information. One of the chief tactics they used to draw unsuspecting people into their web of carefully constructed deliberate deception was targeted advertising, which cost just $60 to deploy across Facebook.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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