Let’s talk a little bit about linked in

Hello folks,

I know that Linked In is one of these sites that are supposed to be good for finding jobs, and getting the word about what you do out there.

For example, if you look at my web site, you’ll find a link to my Linked in.

On that linked in page, come November 2, I will be adding the Email Host Security site and what I’m doing with it.

Let’s start with Brian Kreb’s article Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots as this is where I heard of the problem that we’ll be mentioning.

Linked In is now part of Social Media whether we like it or not. With Social Media, there may be fake profiles out there, and this is bad for Linked In, since it is a specific type of social media site.

As I’ve posted recently, we’ll talk more about social media on both TSB and the Security Hour on the mix.

A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups.

The problem is, they are taking info from legitimate people, creating profiles, putting up pictures, and trying to get people to give up information that might be valuable to an actor to do whatever an actor wants to do with it.

There’s more to this story, including some research that has been done about this fake profile problem now proliferating this popular Microsoft job site.

Some time after the first Krebs article, I then read Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn and Linked In still not sure how to respond to this problem.

There is still research in this space where data is being collected on how bad the problem is. In fact, this article states that people claiming to work at the biggest companies Amazon and Apple fell by a big margin overnight.

Maybe Linked In started to figure out who was real, and who wasn’t based on their own data. You should also read this article, as it might be of interest to you.

Finally, an article I spotted by Kim Komando’s staff titled Scammers love LinkedIn – Here’s a new step to keep yourself safe on the job site which talks about three things that Linked in will be adding.

Here are headings talking about the new features.

• Learn more about a profile
• Fighting fire with fire
• Warnings for suspicious messages

The third item is very recognizable, as I’ve had others who started with me through SMS and wanted to move to whats app as an example, or twitter to email.

Each of the headings talks about what Linked In will be adding to your account within the next month or so to help you stay safe.

I hope that this finds you well, and stay safe on your job hunt!