I recently received an email with attached ZIP file concerning a "wire transfer" which unless I seriously misread the headers comes from mailb-bf.linkedin.com ([216.52.242.151]) as well as several LinkedIn tokens.
I hope by now that everyone is aware that LinkedIn's security system was seriously compromised recently and that as a result, people's encrypted passwords had been posted to a public Internet site. Evidently the breech was more serious than has been admitted, since it looks like a LinkedIn mailerver has been hijacked. Which means that if you have changed your LinkedIn password, the new password may have been harvested. Or in other words, there is now absolutely nothing that can be trusted coming from (or going to) LinkedIn. I hope they got their Instant Delivery and Everyday Low Prices on their Information Technology dollars, because about the last disaster of this magnitude I can recall was when the magazine "Business 2.0" was sunk due to failure to invest in a decent set of backup systems. Again, until someone credible says otherwise, use LinkedIn at your own risk. Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
