{"id":52485,"date":"2012-06-13T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52485"},"modified":"2012-06-13T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:49:03","slug":"linkedin-gets-more-security-after-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/52485-linkedin-gets-more-security-after-breach.html","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn gets more security after breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking website <a title=\"LinkedIn Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384025-LinkedIn\">LinkedIn Corp<\/a> said it will provide an additional layer of online security to its members following last week&#8217;s data breach, while adding that stolen passwords were not published with corresponding email logins.<\/p>\n<p>Some cyber security experts had earlier said LinkedIn did not have adequate protections in place, and warned that the company could uncover further data-losses over coming days as it tries to find out what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Tuesday, the company said all member passwords were now &#8220;salted&#8221; &#8212; a technique that greatly increases the time and computer power needed to crack an encrypted password.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which has more than 160 million members on its site, said there had been no reports of accounts compromised by password theft.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"LinkedIn tidies up security breach\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/52237-linkedin-tidies-up-security-breach.html\">LinkedIn tidies up security breach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Worst passwords you can use\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/52059-worst-passwords-you-can-use.html\">Worst passwords you can use<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"LinkedIn password theft probed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/51985-linkedin-password-theft-probed.html\">LinkedIn password theft probed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking website LinkedIn Corp said it will provide an additional layer of online security to its members following last week&#8217;s data breach, while adding that stolen passwords were not published with corresponding email logins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":31502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,461,3666],"class_list":["post-52485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-hacking","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52487,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52485\/revisions\/52487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}