Stop tweeting against your bosses, your employer has a check on you

Bangalore: People who share any kind of opinion about their employers or the organization in which they are working could land their career at stake. Many organizations are going online to have a pre-employment check by assessing their Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, MySpace and LinkedIn profiles. As a part of assessing an employee's profile, companies are hiring third party verification agencies to see the presence of a prospective employee in the digital world, reports Shilpa Phadnis & Mini Joseph Tejaswi from Times of India. 

Employees might land to trouble while posting information about companies on their social networking sites. "Hiring is a very subjective process, and HR managers have the freedom to hire or reject a candidate based on his or her online social networking behavior," said Nandita Gurjar, Group Head (HR), Infosys Technologies.

Recruiters go through the LinkedIn profiles while hiring employees in the middle senior management level. "It started with IT hiring, but is spreading to other industry verticals," says Madan Padaki, CEO of skill assessment firm MeriTrack.

Ajay Trehan, Founder and CEO of background screening firm Authbridge, says one of his clients rejected a candidate for a director's position because they found a discrepancy in his graduation year mentioned in the company records and on LinkedIn. "When we did a due diligence, we found that he had failed in 1979 but he had not revealed that to our client," says Trehan.

In order to have a check on employee's profile is soon going to be a part of general hiring process in many companies. Recruiters of many companies feel that such an initiative is very necessary. 

Password-stealing virus on Facebook

BOSTON: Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking
 passwords and gather other sensitive information.


The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to click on an attachment to obtain new login credentials, according to anti-virus software maker McAfee Inc.


If the attachment is opened, it downloads several types of malicious software, including a programme that steals passwords, McAfee said.


Hackers have long targeted Facebook users, sending them tainted messages via the social networking company's own internal email system. With this new attack, they are using regular Internet email to spread their malicious software.


A Facebook spokesman said the company could not comment on the specific case, but pointed to a status update the company posted on its website earlier warning users about the spoofed email and advising users to delete the email and to warn their friends.


McAfee estimates that hackers sent out tens of millions of spam across Europe, the United States and Asia since the campaign began on Tuesday.


Dave Marcus, McAfee's director of malware research and communications, said that he expects the hackers will succeed in infecting millions of computers.


"With Facebook as your lure, you potentially have 400 million people that can click on the attachment. If you get 10 per cent success, that's 40 million," he said.


The email's subject line says "Facebook password reset confirmation customer support," according to Marcus.


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