Is it time to check and see if you're open to hackers on LinkedIn?

Most people don’t realise that when they log into LinkedIn the session stays open. No worries you might think, but what about those times when you quickly log in to send a message on a public PC, on a client or suppliers site?

Have you left your account open to someone else whilst you were there?

LinkedIn has security functions to help keep you safe and one of those is to see all those sessions that are still open. Now before you hit this link to go to the settings page here to see I should warn you that it can be quite scary if you haven’t done this before.

This shows you all of the open sessions and you can close each one with your password or all at once, shutting down any easy to access loopholes you may have inadvertently left open.

It is easy to avoid this in the future simply by signing out (if on the laptop / desktop top right under your photograph) and if you can removing or cleaning the internet history too!

In the instances we have heard of, and there aren’t many, most accounts are hacked either through this or via a phishing attack where someone appearing to be LinkedIn has asked for your login and they’ve responded.

Worth noting LinkedIn would never ask for your login details and this blog we wrote years ago might be timely for spotting fake LinkedIn messages and also watch out for a dodgy looking message on LinkedIn suggesting you click a link as we've seen this as a theme in the last few weeks.

As always if it looks a bit dodgy it probably is :/