LinkedIn was not Hacked, suffered outage due to DNS issue

The LinkedIn became inaccessible for an hour last night. Few Hours before App.net co-founder Bryan Berg posted that LinkedIn DNS was hijacked but later LinkedIn confirmed that they suffered outage due to DNS issue, not Hack. DNS Hijacking is an unauthorized modification of a DNS server or change ...

LinkedIn Persistent Cross Site Scripting

Title: ====== Linkedin Social Network - Persistent Web Vulnerability Date: ===== 2013-06-08 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=962 Linkedin Security Ticket ID: 130429-005211 VL-ID: ===== 962 Common Vulnerability Scoring System:...

Linkedin Social Network - Persistent Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Linkedin Social Network - Persistent Web Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=962 Linkedin Security Ticket ID: 130429-005211 Release Date: ============= 2013-06-07 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID...

Linkedin Social Network - Persistent Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Linkedin Social Network - Persistent Web Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=962 Linkedin Security Ticket ID: 130429-005211 Release Date: ============= 2013-06-07 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID...

LinkedIn with Two-factor authentication and Cross Site Scripting Flaw

Two Factor Authentication is becoming a standard in the enterprise security space in an attempt to dually secure end users against malicious attacks. Following Dropbox, Google and virtually everyone else, LinkedIn added two-factor authentication to its login process today. LinkedIn will provide...

LinkedIn Patches XSS and CSRF Vulnerabilities

LinkedIn has patched a number of exploitable vulnerabilities that could have led to phishing attacks, malware infections and the loss of credentials for users of the social network for business professionals. Researchers at Internet Security Auditors in Spain reported the vulnerabilities to...

LinkedIn Investors Cross Site Scripting

============================================= INTERNET SECURITY AUDITORS ALERT 2013-006 - Original release date: 4th March 2013 - Last revised: 25th March 2013 - Discovered by: Eduardo Garcia Melia - Severity: 4.3/10 CVSS Base Scored ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY...

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...