LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running. Two class action complaints were filed by different law firms on behalf of ...

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors' browsers for installed extensions and collect device data.

The practice at the centre of the controversy is called resource probing. When a user opens LinkedIn in a Chromium-based ...

Recent findings indicate that LinkedIn may not be as trustworthy as previously thought. A report from Fairlinked eV, corroborated by Bleeping Computer, reveals that LinkedIn injects a JavaScript ...

The business-focused social networking service LinkedIn is collecting information by searching for software installed on users' PCs, according to the research project BrowserGate. BrowserGate states ...

According to Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at Fortra, claims that Microsoft is allegedly injecting ...