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The plaintiffs failed to prove that a 2012 breach caused them financial loss or future harm, despite their claims that publicly posted credentials placed them at greater risk for identity theft. View full post on Latest articles from SC Magazine News High Tech Crime Solutions

Professional social networking service LinkedIn won the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of premium users who had their log-in passwords exposed as a result of a security breach of the company’s servers last year. View full post on Techworld.com security Hi Tech Crime Solutions http://ParentSecurityOnline.com, http://computer-security-expert.com, http://HackerForHireinternational.com, http://stolencomputeralert.com

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 company’s earnings call today. He [...]

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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 and privacy policy. The move comes in relation to a [...]

LinkedIn has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to meet “industry standard” security practices in connection with a massive data breach earlier this month, according to court documents. View full post on Techworld.com security Sites we like Stolen Computer AlertHow to become the world’s No. 1 hackerGregory Evans is the World’s [...]

Today we will be reviewing a cybercriminal’s recipe for success: Hacking LinkedIn’s password (and possibly user-) database. Sending an email to all obtained email addresses, which is urging you to check your LinkedIn inbox as soon as possib… View full post on The Security Blog » Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com

The mammoth security breach that exposed 6.5 million LinkedIn user passwords should be a wakeup call for end-users everywhere. We should all practice due dilligence and ask the companies we deal with questions about how they deal with security. View full post on Techworld.com security

More than 50% of users use “password”, “secret” or “LinkedIn” as their password Reading the latest news about LinkedIn and the discussions on the wire over the last few hours, two issues immediately struck me on how vulnerable plain passwor… View full post on The Security Blog » Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | [...]

Security awareness training often teaches the importance of password length and password complexity, but these best practices, as it turns out, may be creating a false sense of security. Even worse, users who cooperate and create long, complex passwords may feel betrayed when the organizations they trusted prove fallible and their passwords are hacked. The [...]

LinkedIn has brought the encryption applied to all user passwords up to a more secure standard after last week’s hugely embarrassing password hack, the company has announced. View full post on Techworld.com security

Business social network LinkedIn issued more information and advice to its users over the weekend, in the wake of a massive cyber attack in which 6.5 million passwords were stolen. View full post on Techworld.com security

LinkedIn is investigating reports that approximately 6.4 million user passwords have been posted on the Web. While the breach is still unconfirmed by LinkedIn (as of the time that we wrote this blog), they have acknowledged on their Twitte… View full post on The Security Blog » Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com

This morning when I logged into LinkedIn I was greeted with several front page references to the reported hack of the site, and links to instructions for changing my password, which I did immediately. According to a Mashable report, it seems over 6.5 million account passwords seem to be showing up on a Russian forum [...]

A New York-based web developer and his colleagues have built a web-based application for people to see if their LinkedIn password hash is among 6.5 million released on a Russian hacker forum. View full post on Techworld.com security