• Krebs On Security, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:16 AM

Researchers from Rhino Security Labs have discovered a weakness in LinkedIn's email contacts feature. The feature allows LinkedIn users to import their email contact list into the social network to find connections that they already know. The researchers tested what would happen if they put in the fake email addresses that are tied to potentially famous people. They ran a test for Mark Cuban and found that by populating their email account’s contacts list with hundreds of versions of famous peoples names attached to @gmail.com, @yahoo.com and @hotmail.com accounts, that they could identify the real email addresses of famous people about 90 percent of the time.  

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