LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers'

[wraggster]

An anonymous reader writes with a link to the New York Times' summary of a security and privacy disaster that's been inspiring angry posts on various social networks, including LinkedIn itself:"Security researchers are calling LinkedIn's new mobile app, Intro, a dream come true for hackers or intelligence agencies (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/linkedins-new-mobile-app-called-a-dream-for-attackers)... Intro redirects e-mail traffic to and from users' iPhones and iPads through LinkedIn's servers, then analyzes and scrapes those e-mails for relevant data and adds pertinent LinkedIn details... Researchers liken that redirection to a so-called man-in-the-middle attack in which hackers, or more recently, intelligence agencies, intercept Internet traffic en route to its destination and do what they will with it."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/10/25/2242254/linkedins-new-mobile-app-called-a-dream-for-attackers