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Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

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Feed Name: Graham Cluley

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2026-04-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Graham Cluley

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This Smashing Security episode covers Fairlinked's "Browsergate" findings that LinkedIn injects a ~2.7MB JavaScript payload into Chrome-based sessions to enumerate over 6,000 browser extensions and collect device fingerprinting data (CPU cores, memory, screen resolution, battery, timezone, language), raising privacy and GDPR concerns; it also reports on violent "wrench" attacks in California where suspects posed as delivery drivers, abducted or restrained victims, coerced passwords, and stole millions in cryptocurrency — the episode mixes these security stories with sponsor segments and other lighter items.

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