Giving Facebook password to employers

I just read an interesting article from Information Week about this controversy over giving your Facebook password to your employer.  Now I think that this partly is an invasion of ones civil liberties because you as an individual are entitled to free speech and this would be considered spying.  I am sure these companies are paranoid about being able to spy on their employees and must be able to see what they are saying about their company or who they may be talking to that works at one of their competitors.  For me it would be a bad thing to give out any password to your company because that is asking you for your personal information.  On the other hand it may be a security issue depending on who you work for.  It may be a policy in certain fields of the military to see if you are passing on any secure information to help avoid a situation like the wikileaks fiasco.  With that it may seem like the government wants to spy on you, but it may be necessary for security purposes.  I feel that this issue could go either way and each person will have to interpret it on their own.

Information week daily update.

Last week I remember in the news hearing about a new type of phishing scheme that targets customers banking information.  I remember seeing that the types of emails and text alerts that the clients were receiving were looking alarmingly real.  Many people fell for the scheme and lost some sort of money.  In my daily information week update I read that arrests were made in Russia with a similar scheme.  The would be thieves would use Malware to fool the victims into entering their personal information.  The specific type of Malware used was Carberp and RDP-door Trojans.  It is important I feel to be aware of your surroundings at all times when you are dealing with personal information.  If it were me I would only access my account information from my own personal computer that is connected to a known safe network; namely mine.  When accessing information on a mobile device make sure that you use your own that is on a known safe network.  When I was in Iraq over this last year I did not access any personal information on any computers but my own.  Too many people were falling victim and I wasn't going to be one.  Remember you can't be too careful when you access your information from unknown or unsafe networks.

Good updates from Information Week

My whole college career; both undergrad and grad school; I receive daily update from Information Week.  This not only fills my need for my addiction to technology, but it keeps me informed as well.  Todays headline was way to stop insider attacks.  Cyber Security is a major issue now and the information from the CIA is priceless I think.  Insider attacks come I feel mainly when disgruntled employees or hackers as I call them become upset at a particular direction of their company and decide to do something to ry and topple it.  The whole playstation network fiasco that happened last year could have been seen as an insider attach and not depending on the way that you look at it.  Take that the network is mostly free to users even though it has not ben as successful as xbox live.  Why doesn't someone just attach Microsoft.  Well, my friends, Microsoft would be well prepared for any coming attacks.  Sony just had this little network that someone decided had to be messed with and poof.....it was down for 2 weeks while Sony tried to figure out what happened.  Now I for one think that it could have been an insider attach because PSN stinks.....you will have to decide.  So if you want to learn more about Information Security; sign up for Information Week and get daily updates.

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