Searching LinkedIn
LinkedIn has to be the largest professional social media networking site. There are 740+ million total users on the platform. 55 million companies are listed on LinkedIn according to their listed statistics, which can be found at the following link: https://news.linkedin.com/about-us#Statistics.
Chances are that because of the many users and companies on the platform, we are bound to find some nuggets of gold when it comes to a pentesting engagement. Since the site is basically a real-time virtual resume for professional individuals, a mass amount of information for the user is stored in easily searchable text. Data points relating to the size of a company, the industry in which the company participates, technology used by the company, and people employed by the company are all readily available through the search input.
Searching LinkedIn has the granularity to narrow in on the following details:
- People
- Jobs
- Companies
- Groups
- Schools...
