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LinkedIn users are being urged to watch out for suspicious emails because the professional networking website is one of the most popular brands targeted by cyber criminals in phishing attacks.

A class action lawsuit that alleges LinkedIn (LNKD) was overly aggressive promoting its service by sending emails to users' contacts was allowed to move forward Thursday, a federal judge ruled.

At 6:27 p.m. ET last Friday, a great time to bury any embarrassing corporate notices, LinkedIn's legal counsel team sent an email titled "LEGAL NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION" to millions of its ...

One of the risks of using social media networks is having information you intend to share with only a handful of friends be made available to everyone. Sometimes that over-sharing happens because ...

Sending too many emails can be costly. LinkedIn is finding this out the hard way. The social networking site agreed to pay $13 million to settle a lawsuit from members who complained that unwanted ...

If you've given professional-networking site LinkedIn access to your email account, you may be aware that the site uses your contact list to recruit new members. What you probably weren't aware of, ...

It's true that LinkedIn has, in the past, sent legitimate emails that notified users that their profiles had been viewed by people at companies. However, the kind of phishing scam covered in this fact ...

A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections. LinkedIn just quietly introduced a ...

You can easily change your email on LinkedIn by updating your contact information via your profile page. LinkedIn gives you the option to add multiple email accounts to your profile. Visit Business ...