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LinkedIn's Intro tool for iPhones could be a juicy target for attackers |
October 26, 2013
Some people think a lot can go wrong if you have your emails pass through LinkedIn's servers with the company's new Intro technology.Earlier this week, the company released LinkedIn Intro, a plug-in for the iPhone's native email app that attaches people's LinkedIn profile information to their emails. The service is meant to add more professional context to emails, but it does that at the expense of users' private data, some security experts say.By transmitting sent and received emails through LinkedIn's servers, which then scrape and analyze them for data, the service essentially amounts to a "man-in-the-middle attack," security consulting firm Bishop Fox wrote in a staff blog post."The introduction of new data sources into a medium rife with security issues such as email is a dream for attackers," Bishop Fox wrote, noting that it could only be a matter of time before someone uses the service to launch a phishing attack.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2058260/linkedins-intro-tool-for-iphones-could-be-a-juicy-target-for-attackers.html#tk.rss_all
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