By Graham K. Rogers

Users of the LinkedIn service may want to be careful about clicking on an email that is doing the rounds at the moment. The text offers a way to reset the password as the user may have forgotten what it is. Once reset, the user is offered a second link to sign in.

Clicking on the links conveniently provided will take one to a site that is shown as http://krispyhut.com/report.html -- clearly not LinkedIn.

The IP number for krispyhut, links to Bluehost a hosting service in in Provo, Utah, USA (who probably know nothing of the phishing).

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.