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LinkedIn Cross Site Request Forgery
============================================= INTERNET SECURITY AUDITORS ALERT 2013-001 - Original release date: January 30th, 2013 - Last revised: March 25th, 2013 - Discovered by: Vicente Aguilera Diaz - Severity: 4.3/10 CVSSv2 Base Score ============================================= I...
LinkedIn Data Breach Lawsuit Dismissed
The professional networking site LinkedIn won a class-action lawsuit before it even went to trial after a judge this week dismissed claims from two premium users who maintained the company failed to provide the level of data security outlined in its privacy policy. Northern California U.S. Distri...
LinkedIn Clickjacking / Open Redirection
Linkedin's Clickjacking & Open Url Redirection Vulnerabilities Vulnerability Title: Secondary Email Addition & Deletion Via Click Jacking in Linkedin Website Link: Tried on Indian version Found on: 06/08/2012 Author: Ajay Singh Negi Version: All language versions would be vulnerable Tested on:...
LinkedIn Data breach costs $1 million
Business networking site LinkedIn has announced it took a hit of up to $1 million due to one of the year's largest reported data breaches. LinkedIn spent between $500,000 and $1 million on forensic work after a large number of passwords were breached, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said on the...
Dropbox Blames Breach for Recent Spam Targeting Customers
Over the last few weeks an attacker used a collection of illicitly obtained usernames and passwords to infiltrate a number of Dropbox accounts, including one belonging to a Dropbox employee. The usernames and passwords were stolen from other, third-party websites, Dropbox officials said, finally...
Social Site Formspring Says 420k User Password Hashes Posted Online
Hackers broke into a development server at Formspring, a social Q&A site, and made off with the password hashes for 420,000 users and later posted them online. The company has reset all of the users’ passwords and said it also has changed the way that it handles passwords. Formspring officials sa...
Woman Sues LinkedIn for $5 Million Over Data Breach
Less than two weeks after learning more than 6 million stolen LinkedIn passwords were posted online, an Illinois woman is leading a class-action lawsuit against the professional networking site for using inadequate security tools to protect its members’ data. Katie Szpyrka, who registered for a...
Linkedin sued by Member for Hacking Incident
Linkedin sued by Member for Hacking Incident Illinois resident Katie Szpyrka filed a $5 million class action lawsuit against LinkedIn in the US District Court in the Northern District of California on June 15, claiming the business-oriented social networking site violated its own user agreement a...
LinkedIn Victims Do Not Connect With Legitimate Notifications
The company sent an important e-mail notification with special coding DKIM and addressed the recipient by name. It also didn’t include any links in the actual message. And yet LinkedIn did not connect with some 250,000 of its users, who flagged the legitimate alert as spam. Some thought it was a...
With LinkedIn: The Bell Tolls For Simple Password Hashing
This week’s revelations about leaks of user passwords from the professional networking site LinkedIn, dating Web site eHarmony.com and music site Last.fm suggest that even tech-savvy firms are slow to accept that hashes -a once-reliable technology for storing data online – now offer scant...
eHarmony, Last.fm Emerge as Latest Victims in Wake of LinkedIn Hack
The online dating site eHarmony announced Wednesday that passwords for some of its members have been leaked, making it the second major social network site to announce the theft of user passwords in the last 24 hours. According to an entry posted on the eHarmony Blog, the company reset the affect...
LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked
LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked LinkedIn Wednesday confirmed that at least some passwords compromised in a major security breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts. Norweigan IT website Dagens IT first reported the breach, noting that "Two days ago a package on the 6.5 million...
LinkedIn Investigating Password Leak That Could Affect 6.5 M
UPDATE Professional social networking site LinkedIn announced early Wednesday morning that it was looking into reports of stolen passwords, according to a post on their Twitter page. The tweet substantiates reports by several news outlets that a hacker was able to download the hashed passwords of...
Mass WordPress Compromise Fuels CRIDEX Worm Outbreak
There are a number of compromised sites on the popular blogging platform, WordPress, which, according to a Trend Labs report, are actively infecting users with the CRIDEX worm. The infections are part of a social engineering campaign that lures users with emails purporting to come from trusted...
Fake LinkedIn Emails Link to Blackhole Exploit Malware
Fake LinkedIn Emails Link to Blackhole Exploit Malware Cyber Criminals have been busy pumping out spam emails that pose as legitimate LinkedIn notices, enticing you to click on a link in order to read what message some random stranger has left for you. The incident was identified by researchers a...
100 Million Member LinkedIn Drives Into Privacy Ditch, Hits Reverse
LinkedIn is responding to user complaints about its new social advertising model, which asked its 100 million users to ‘opt-out’ if they didn’t want advertisers to pair their message with content – including photographs – from users’ profiles. In a blog post on Thursday, Ryan Roslansky, the...
XerXes - Most powerful dos tool
XerXes - Most powerful dos tool XerXes is one of the most powerful private dos tool. This tools was used by The Jester to Hits WikiLeaks Site DoS Attack. Get Source Code here : / XerXes - Most powerful dos tool - THN https://www.thehackernews.com / include stdio.h include stdlib.h include string....
LinkedIn Profile Update Detection
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