Updating Your Password on LinkedIn and Other Account Security Best Practices

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Introducing Simpler Controls for LinkedIn Account Settings

Over the past years, we have shared with our members ways to manage the right levels of privacy and security on LinkedIn. Since then, we’ve heard loud and clear that you’d like for a simpler way to manage your account and settings page.

Starting today, we’re launching a simplified LinkedIn Account and Settings dashboard to help you navigate and find the right settings faster.

We’re currently rolling this feature out to members as we test and gather feedback on the new design. Note that no member settings or defaults have been changed with this design update.

We’ll walk you through some of the key features of the revised Account and Settings page.

What’s new?

1)    Top section highlighting important information about you and your LinkedIn account

2)    Bottom section organizing settings into four tabs to reduce vertical scrolling and updated content to help you understand what each setting is about

3)    Popular FAQs related to Settings, a link to the help center for more information and feedback tool to provide us with your comments and suggestions

The above changes not only highlight your key LinkedIn account information at a glance, but also direct you to the right information you’re looking for (whether it be profile, applications, or email preferences page). For those of you who still have lingering questions, we have incorporated a brand new FAQ section that should help.

Fewer clicks. Faster Navigation.

We’ve also added a new modal layer design for many of these settings, which surfaces your options as you click through them instead of taking you to a whole new page. Fewer clicks lets you change your settings faster.

Surfacing important information

And, finally from a design perspective, we’ve made the Accounts section flexible should your account have additional elements, while elevating key components you’re likely to be looking for.

We hope this design update helps you manage your LinkedIn account more easily and effectively.

We welcome your feedback and suggestions for further improvements, which can be submitted directly from the Account and Settings page. Else, feel free to leave a comment on this post.

http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/02/15/linkedin-account-settings/trackback/

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Tips to protect your account: Why you shouldn’t use your password across multiple sites

December 14th, 2010

Many of you may have heard by now that a prominent blog had its commenting system hacked into and a large number of user names and passwords were exposed.

As we closely monitored the situation, we decided it was imperative to take preemptive action to help ensure that those leaked passwords were not being used to attack any LinkedIn members.

Here’s how we’ve taken steps to address this situation in the past 24 hours. We’ve identified a very small fraction of our members whose accounts could potentially be affected by the recent breach. If you were in the group of users who may have been at risk, you should have received an email with instructions to reset your password. Note, to make sure we have you covered, you will receive an email from us to each email you have on file. You only need to act on one of them.

Even if you weren’t affected, it is a good reminder to proactively manage your online accounts. The number one tip is to use a unique password for each site.  For additional tips check out my other post on security here.

http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/12/14/linkedin-security/trackback/

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