The latest data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) 2018 E-Business Report showed that privacy concerns, bots, and toxic online discourse are some of the major factors contributing to the dissatisfaction of users in social media. However, users say that they are even more...
Lightning Security’s Jack Cable revealed last Thursday that a bug in LinkedIn’s Autofill plugin could have been exploited by an attacker to collect private profile data such as phone numbers and email addresses. Even though only whitelisted domains have access to this functionality, an attacker...
Reports have recently revealed that cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery of UpGuard had found a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket containing the data of 48 million users scraped from various social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zillow. The data had been gathered...
Last Thursday, a Ninth Circuit panel pored over the data scraping case involving LinkedIn and HiQ, a firm which sells employee and job seeker information to various companies. LinkedIn attorney Donald Verrilli Jr. warned that upholding a previous ruling which says that LinkedIn cannot use...
In a blog post last week, LinkedIn’s VP of legal Sara Harrington announced that the company had made changes to its terms of service in order to be compliant to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be taking effect in May. According to...
A Chrome extension called Browser-Secure has recently been discovered to be gathering details from users’ Facebook and LinkedIn accounts in secret, which it will then send to a remote server. The extension uses maladvertising tactics to promote itself. A user may be led to a site...
Last Monday, a federal judge ruled against LinkedIn in a case involving the alleged illegal downloading of their user data by hiQ Labs. Judge Edward Chen pointed out that by blocking hiQ from obtaining professional data to feed its analytic engine, the Microsoft-owned professional networking...
Australia — Recent reports have revealed how cyber scammers are adopting more clever ways to extract information from unsuspecting victims. Aside from emails, scammers have began penetrating LinkedIn, a networking platform for business purposes, as well as text messaging. Moreover, Paypal has seen many transaction...
According to a report last Friday, SecureWorks cybersecurity researchers discovered that Iran is supporting attackers to use social media platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook to conduct cyber espionage, steal information, and control web actions of unsuspecting victims. For instance, fake LinkedIn account Mia Ash has more...