LinkedIn spear-phishing campaign discovered

Stuart Sumner
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New LinkedIn scam harvests users data for malicious purposes

A new scam on business social networking site LinkedIn, which aims to harvest data from users' profiles, has been discovered by security firm Websense. The scam itself is actually a profile set ...

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