Gerald Smith of the Huffington Post wrote an interesting article the LinkedIn app for the iPhone/iPad and security breaches. Are you really safe using this mobile app?
LinkedIn's iPhone App Sparks Latest Privacy Controversy Over Mobile Devices
Security researchers have discovered a feature on LinkedIn's iPhone
and iPad app that sends detailed information from users' calendars to
the company's servers without their knowledge or consent.
If iPhone users "opt-in" to the app's calendar feature, the app
automatically sends all of users' calendar entries within a five-day
time frame to LinkedIn's servers, researchers say. This can include the
subject, time and location of meetings as well as the names and email
addresses of the meeting organizer and attendees. It can also include
meeting notes, "which tend to contain highly sensitive information such
as conference call details and passcodes," Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani,
researchers at Skycure Security, said in a blog post
Tuesday. As an example, they said users may create a "financial
results" meeting on their calendar and it would be sent to LinkedIn's
servers. Read more...
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