Huge LinkedIn loophole puts user security at risk

If you were browsing the LinkedIn job boards this morning, you could have come across a job opening from Mashable titled “Assistant to Matt Binder.”

Even though it appears right there on Mashable’s official LinkedIn business page, the company, unfortunately, is not hiring me an assistant. Mashable’s human resources department did not post that job listing. No one at the company posted the opening. The job does not exist. 

So, how did it show up alongside the company’s very real, official job posts? Read more...