2012: LinkedIn reports 6,500,000 compromised, usernames and passwords leaked2016: A third party reveals an additional 161,000,000 accounts were actually part of the same data breach2017: 700,000,000 emails reported to be harvested through by one spambot through LinkedInLinkedIn has a pattern of side-stepping fundamental security practices and ignoring warnings from top security researchers. Crucial flaws have been uncovered in both their mobile and web products, and although recently some efforts have been made to thwart some of the publically available tools, such as:https://github.com/0x09AL/ravenhttps://github.com/nettitude/Prowlhttps://github.com/laramies/theHarvesterThe security measures are easily bypassed making LinkedIn an invaluable resource for identity thieves, hijackers, social engineers and attackers performing OSINT operations. LinkedIn also serves as a hotbed for phishing as part of the poor handling of the initial data breach.As many organizations rely on this platform I will gladly sign up and join with a company account, however, I won't help widen the attack surface - especially with my own data. The information on my personal profile here is out of date and will not be updated. Call me old-fashioned but a resume and great references are all I'm able to provide, upon request. Contact me at peter@psobko.io or https://psobko.io for a web form.