In the wake of a massive security breach on the business networkingsite LinkedIn, which resulted in the leaking of roughly 6.5 millionuser passwords and their subsequently being published on anunauthorized Website, the company has issued a blog post to answersome of the most frequently asked questions about the breach. Thecompany has also enlisted the help of the FBI for an investigationinto the breach. "We want to be as transparent as possible while at the sametime preserving the security of our members without jeopardizingthe ongoing investigation," wrote LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira. "We take this criminalactivity very seriously, so we are working closely with the FBI asthey aggressively pursue the perpetrators of this crime." Silveira noted the compromised passwords were not published withcorresponding email log-ins, and that the majority of passwordswere "hashed", meaning they were still encoded; however,he confessed that a subset of the passwords was decoded. Silveiraalso stressed that the only information published was the listpasswords. "We are not aware of any member information beingpublished at any time in connection with the list of stolenpasswords," he wrote. Also addressed was the speed of LinkedIn response to the breach,reports of which first surfaced last Wednesday. Silveira said thecompany launched an investigation immediately after receivingconfirmation of the breach, and by the end of Thursday, allpasswords on the published list that were believed to have createdrisk for LinkedIn members had been disabled. "This is true,regardless of whether or not the passwords were decoded. After wedisabled the passwords, we contacted members with instructions onhow to reset their passwords," he wrote. "Once again, wetruly apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you, ourmembers." Stolen passwords aren the only thing social media users have toworry about, a recent report from IT research firm Gartnerindicated. The study found that corporate monitoring of employeebehavior on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedInwill rise to 60 percent by 2015. The report also raises thequestion of who is actually looking at this information and theparties who have access to employee-monitoring tools, as well asthe ethical and legal issues involved. Users should also be aware of their activities on social mediasites and how that impacts their prospects of being hired. An Aprilstudy from job-search site CareerBuilder shows that more than athird of companies (37 percent) polled use social networking sitesto research job candidates. About a third (34 percent) of hiringmanagers who currently research candidates via social media saidthey have found information that has caused them not to hire acandidate, according to the report. That content ranges fromevidence of inappropriate behavior to information that contradictedtheir listed qualifications. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Door Lever Handles Manufacturer , Raised Floor Pedestal Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Cabinet Door Handle.
Related Articles -
Door Lever Handles Manufacturer, Raised Floor Pedestal Manufacturer,
|