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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn has become the latest platform to embrace the recent AI boom, announcing today that it has begun “leveraging the most advanced OpenAI GPT models.” This comes as no ...

Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the company confirmed Thursday. The sale of the data was ...

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 ...