An article in Strategy Page highlights the continued struggle to defend against phishing scams by holding exercises as part of routine readiness training.
An offer to American airmen stationed at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam to be an extra in the Transformers 3 movie, turned out to be part of the Operational Readiness Exercise, a planned phishing scam used to bait airmen into releasing their contact data. The email was a fake, used to test how well airmen could detect a hacker attempts to deceive military Internet users to give up valuable information.
There are hundreds of spear phishing attacks on American military personnel each year, meaning people are looking for defense related data, including classified information.
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