Your CEO's PA could be a hacker's entry point into your company

I'll be honest with you. LinkedIn scares me.

For any criminal interested in targeting senior staff in an organisation, it's a goldmine of information.

With just a few clicks they can find out who has what job, who they are connected with, and often their contact information. Even if their contact information isn't visible, it's often just a simple case of firstname.lastname@example.com. With that kind of information it's not too hard to rustle up a convincing-looking phishing email or send over a poisoned PDF attachment that drops malware onto the recipient's PC.