Sophos unlinked over LinkedIn

‘LINKEDIN – PROVIDING HACKERS WITH YOUR COMPANY’S CORPORATE DIRECTORY’ the press release is headed. In its just-published 2010 Threat Report, security solutions vendor Sophos advises that LinkedIn, though considered to be the ‘least threatening’ of the top social networks, ‘can still provide a sizeable pool of information for hackers’. “Targeted attacks against companies are in the news at the moment, and the more information a criminal can get about your organisation’s structure, the easier for them to send a poisoned attachment to precisely the person whose computer they want to break into,” warns Sophos’s over-quoted senior technology consultant Graham Cluley. “LinkedIn … Continue reading Sophos unlinked over LinkedIn