An appeals court Monday ruled that web scraping—or automatically extracting information from websites and storing it for later use—is legal, protecting a tool used by researchers but dealing a blow to ...

A bug in how LinkedIn autofills data on other websites could have allowed an attacker to silently steal user profile data. The flaw was found in LinkedIn's widely used AutoFill plugin, which allows ...

500 million LinkedIn profiles had their data scraped. That scraped data is now appearing for sale on a forum. You can preview the data for roughly two dollars' worth of forum credit. Update: LinkedIn ...

A court has ruled that it's legal to scrape publicly available data from LinkedIn, despite the company's claims that this violates user privacy. San Francisco-based start-up hiQ Labs harvests user ...

Several friends recently asked me how cybercriminals could gain access to their contact data, especially their mobile phone numbers and email addresses. I basically told them that there are several ...

Undoubtedly, the California-based social networking site LinkedIn is handy for people who want to hire or get hired. If you have been using LinkedIn for a long time and you want to download your ...

LinkedIn has forcefully denied the exposure of data relating to 700 million users of its workplace networking platform – over 90% of its total user base – which has been offered for sale on the dark ...

LinkedIn profile styles change. So if you haven’t updated your profile to current standards, it’s possible that your page may raise some red flags with recruiters. Those concerns can add up, and soon ...