Linkedin - All the Agents want to be my buddies

[vetran]

Why do I get the feeling that it isn't DA?

it Isn't, but I'd let DA in, my contacts are private doesn't do to upset the the important people.

[Smartie]

Careful

Be careful about who you accept on LinkedIn. It's a known vector for phishing attacks.
There's a fair bit of useful information on there that can be used against you and your clients.

One security group tested this by setting up a fake profile (young, pretty, female) on LinkedIn and sent invites to people in a targeted company.
They got some acceptances from junior employees then used networking to gain access to senior executives in the organisation.

Armed with that information (and information from other sources) they used it to target phishing attacks at the execs which were successful. It left them with access to very sensitive information and systems.

[MyUserName]

it Isn't, but I'd let DA in, my contacts are private doesn't do to upset the the important people.

But upsetting DA is fine

[norrahe]

Be careful about who you accept on LinkedIn. It's a known vector for phishing attacks.
There's a fair bit of useful information on there that can be used against you and your clients.

One security group tested this by setting up a fake profile (young, pretty, female) on LinkedIn and sent invites to people in a targeted company.
They got some acceptances from junior employees then used networking to gain access to senior executives in the organisation.

Armed with that information (and information from other sources) they used it to target phishing attacks at the execs which were successful. It left them with access to very sensitive information and systems.

Which is why you limit access to contacts, keep the information on your profile as brief as possible, after all it's an advert not a full blown CV and also do not publish things like your date of birth, address and any other personal information that could be used in phishing.

[vwdan]

keep the information on your profile as brief as possible, after all it's an advert not a full blown CV

Why would you do this? Do you not consider your CV a "public document" so to speak?

[Ticktock]

Be careful about who you accept on LinkedIn. It's a known vector for phishing attacks.
There's a fair bit of useful information on there that can be used against you and your clients.

One security group tested this by setting up a fake profile (young, pretty, female) on LinkedIn and sent invites to people in a targeted company.
They got some acceptances from junior employees then used networking to gain access to senior executives in the organisation.

Armed with that information (and information from other sources) they used it to target phishing attacks at the execs which were successful. It left them with access to very sensitive information and systems.

I don't see how this is a concern for me. Yes, it may be for past clients, but not for me. There are no "junior employees" in my company for them to connect to, except myself. And if they connected to me and then tried to target the exec (also me ) then I might notice. As for my past clients, I doubt they would need to look at my LinkedIn page to find details of employees at a target company, what with the fact that they can simply search for employees of that company directly.

Also, I'm not in the habit of giving sensitive information to random LinkedIn connections - in fact I rarely speak to any of them that I don't know personally. The most sensitive info they would get is my CV - but then any agent could get a copy of that if they told me they had a role going that sounded good.

[smatty]

Which is why you limit access to contacts, keep the information on your profile as brief as possible, after all it's an advert not a full blown CV and also do not publish things like your date of birth, address and any other personal information that could be used in phishing.

If you run a limited company then unfortunately most of that is in the public domain already. You can cover up the address by using accountants address instead or a virtual office, but director information is all on Companies House.

[norrahe]

Why would you do this? Do you not consider your CV a "public document" so to speak?

I don't see the point in a long winded profile. I've had lots of interest and even offers off job titles and one liners from the profile.

[norrahe]

If you run a limited company then unfortunately most of that is in the public domain already. You can cover up the address by using accountants address instead or a virtual office, but director information is all on Companies House.

Thankfully not so much in cloggers.

[SueEllen]

If you run a limited company then unfortunately most of that is in the public domain already. You can cover up the address by using accountants address instead or a virtual office, but director information is all on Companies House.

You can do digging on the internet about most people who have been on the electoral roll in the last 10 years and find out their date of birth.

Your main issue with digging for data is whether the person you are finding information about has anything worth stealing - with social networking it's easier to see whether there is.