'Tom Liner' compromised LinkedIn's API to create the massive database
Authorities claim the new law will only target illegal behaviour
Why it's a bad idea to reveal too much on social media (part 94)
As many as 10,000 Brits have been targeted, including security and military officials, civil servants, defence contractors and pharmaceutical industry experts
This week on the IT news podcast the team discusses the Home Office's 'super database' on race, health and biometrics, the British software reseller bringing at £170m claim against Microsoft and the recent data breaches involving both Facebook and LinkedIn....
The hacker included 2 million records as proof that they have what they claim
Hackers first sent an exciting job offer via LinkedIn to aerospace executives while posing themselves as recruiters from well-known firms, such as General Dynamics and Collins Aerospace
The hacker was arrested in Czech Republic in October 2016
IBM X-Force warns of new spear-phishing attacks by APT it has tracked since 2015
Cloud - and Office 365 in particular - drove revenues up again, but Xbox hardware sales tanked