If you’ve been around the blog for any time at all, I’m sure you’ve seen me talk about the importance of having an online presence that you control as part of your professional life. We’ve talked many times about how putting forth a professional, knowledgeable, image into the online world would be the best thing…
“The statements say VW in-house attorneys tipped off employees about an oncoming litigation hold. And at least one in-house counsel apparently indicated to employees that they should destroy certain documents and a hard drive that pertained to VW’s emissions cheating issues.” I’m not a lawyer, but I know you can’t do that. It violates every…
It’s true, having an online presence can be helpful. It can be hurtful too, especially if you don’t think hiring managers might look for you online and make a decision based on what they find. Wouldn’t it be better to present yourself professionally, knowledgeable, and relevant?
““When we talked about the revelations of Snowden, it was hard to convince some folks on the progressive side to care,” said Josh Levy, advocacy director of Access Now, a nonprofit that runs a digital security hotline to counsel activists around the world on how to avoid surveillance. “I would talk to folks about the…
“Training is a big part of protecting yourself from phishing attacks. There are a lot of ways to train employees, but giving them a phishing test is pretty standard. Can you recognize a phishing message? There are several free testing sites at OpenDNS or SonicWall.” Think you would always recognize a phishing attempt? Care to…
“From a privacy perspective, this feels like a really bad idea to me.” I agree. We all pretty much know the NSA is snooping on us, now they’re going to share the information with a bunch of other government agencies, and countless number of people are going to have access to the data the NSA…