How the Taliban is using fake Facebook profiles of women

PC Advisor has the story:

The tech-savvy Taliban is creating fake Facebook profiles using pictures of attractive women. They’re then using these fake profiles to befriend Australian soldiers, and are gathering information based on those soldiers’ Facebook updates. A big problem, of course, is Facebook’s geo-tagging function, which logs the location from which posts or photos are uploaded. If a soldier posts something to Facebook while they’re in the field, this pretty much gives away their location…

“Few consider the possibilities of data mining and how patterns of behavior can be identified over time,” the review states. The review surveyed 1577 Australian Department of Defence members on their social media practices and knowledge (or lack thereof) of associated risks. Fifty-eight percent of Defence staff reportedly had no social media training.