News, via Lucian Constantin, writing at PCWorld, details the discovery of a targeted group of LinkedIn Corporation (NasdaqGS: LNKD) users (in this case information security professionals) unwittingly involved in a focused intelligence/espionage campaign to garner discrete corporate information. Another case of social networks as the baseline method for intelligence gathering by nations-states and illicit non-governmental organizations. Aye me buckos! A treasure-trove thee awaits!