What Is linkedin.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on October 10, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

LinkedIn (linkedin.com) is a social media site for professionals.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to LinkedIn include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest.

DESCRIPTION

The homepage shows my feed consisting of the people I follow and the things they have recently posted. The posts have a professional bias and often are related to the jobs people do. Above other people’s posts was a box where I could publish my own. In the left column was my clickable profile. Beneath my personal profile was my company profile. In the right column was a widget for LinkedIn trending news. I clicked on one of the top stories. It opened numerous people’s posts related to a topic. The introduction to the topic was written by Brendan Wong, Editor at LinkedIn News. 6/17/2024

HISTORY

As of November 2023, linkedin.com has 1.7 billion monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that linkedin.com was founded on February 16, 2003. The Internet Archive has saved linkedin.com 330,700 times between February 16, 2003 and December 12, 2023.

Is linkedin.com Safe?

Here, I analyzed linkedin.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:

Sucuri says linkedin.com is a low security risk.

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/ / ?trk=guest_homepage-basic_guest_nav_menu_people
• Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/ / ?trk=guest_homepage-basic_guest_nav_menu_people
• Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
  https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/ / ?trk=guest_homepage-basic_guest_nav_menu_people

Unmask Parasites says linkedin.com is clean.

VirusTotal says linkedin.com is clean.

URLVoid says linkedin.com passed all blocklist engines.

In conclusion, we graded says linkedin.com as safe, but it has security header issues. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: linkedin.com