{"id":15247,"date":"2012-06-13T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T05:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2012-06-13T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T05:25:40","slug":"linkedin-gets-extra-security-layer-following-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/15247\/linkedin-gets-extra-security-layer-following-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn gets extra security layer following breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking website <a title=\"LinkedIn Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1713-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 wraps up security breach\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/14988\/linkedin-wraps-up-security-breach\/\">LinkedIn wraps up security breach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"LinkedIn breach puts site\u2019s reputation on the line\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/14959\/linkedin-breach-puts-sites-reputation-on-the-line\/\">LinkedIn breach puts site\u2019s reputation on the line<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"LinkedIn gets FBI in on password theft case\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/14813\/linkedin-gets-fbi-in-on-password-theft-case\/\">LinkedIn gets FBI in on password theft case<\/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":7,"featured_media":14125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,583,1301],"class_list":["post-15247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-hacking","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15249,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions\/15249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}