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Social Media Hysteria
- — Oct. 12, 2012, 5:17 p.m.
In late September, California joined the growing number of states enacting laws precluding employers from taking action against employees and job applicants who refuse to turn over their social media passwords without some form of justification. Such laws should hardly come as a shock. The thought of an employer compelling employees or job applicants to hand over their passwords for no business purpose other than to snoop into the their personal affairs makes little sense. It does, however, show the hysteria that is overtaking some employers when it comes to social media.
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Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
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Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
