Cory Scott, LinkedIn's CIO has written a blog titled "Protecting Our Members", which provides some insight into how LinkedIn is considering the security of its systems. What does it mean when the CIO addresses the questions related to security, rather than the CISO?
With the news of over 100 million user login credentials being stolen from online professional networking website LinkedIn, the industry offers it's viewpoints on passwords, the GDPR and LinkedIn's choice of encryption. Credential crunch Cory Scott, LinkedIn's CIO, announced on Wednesday in a blog post titled “Protecting Our Members” that LinkedIn, “had [become] aware of an additional set of data that had just been released that claims to be email and hashed password combinations of more than 100 million LinkedIn members.”
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