Make your LinkedIn more secure

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Yesterday, while I was looking for other specific settings, I opened the security settings of my account and I realized that all my connections to LinkedIn were unencrypted as a default.

It was no biggie for me because I use HTTPS EVERYWHERE, which forces your browser to always use HTTPS, but that didn't look good.

Luckily it's possible to enable a secure connection and to add a two-step verification to your account and, if you haven't done it yet, I'd recommend you to do it right away.

On the right corner of LinkedIn homepage, you'll see a small pic of yourself.

If you hover over it, you'll notice a series of options. Choose Privacy & Settings: Manage.
 

That'll open up another window (you'll be requested to login as a security measure) showing your main settings.

At this point click Account and select Manage Security Settings. Check the secure connection setting and enable, if you want, the two-step verification for your account.

Another security setting I warmly recommend you to check is about your active connections, because LinkedIn tends not to automatically log you off for inactivity, unlike many servers around.

Under your account information, you'll see a link named "See where you're signed in".

If you click it, a new window will show all of your currently open LinkedIn sessions. If you see only one of them, good news, you're good to go.

If, instead, there's more than one session, you want to sign out from them because a hacker could take advantage of the fact you're already logged in to hack into your account.

You can easily do it by clicking the Sign out of all these sessions link. Choose Sign Out when a confirmation pop-up appears and you're good to go.

Thanks for your time.