LinkedIn shutting down its security-plagued INTRO app in Early March

Last October, the social network 'LinkedIn' launched a controversial Smartphone app called 'Intro' that intercepts and route all of your emails through LinkedIn servers to inject LinkedIn profiles of the sender directly into the mails. The app was released for Android, as well as iOS devices. Why...

LinkedIn Intro Data Can Be Spoofed, Leads to Phishing

LinkedIn stood up for its new Intro app for iOS by providing some high-level transparency into how it handles communication between devices and its network, and took time to call initial criticism of the app inaccurate and speculative. In the meantime, one security researcher posted details onlin...

LinkedIn Intro App a Man in the Middle Attack

This is one introduction you may not want to make. LinkedIn’s release of its Intro app yesterday for Apple iOS mobile devices raised more than a few eyebrows for behaviors that are causing security experts to worry. Intro is an integrated service that works hand-in-hand with the Apple Mail app...