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Another Messaging Risk To Keep In Mind

Many of the business folks I've talked to in the past year or two are increasingly using text messaging more while doing their business. And they are using their business cell phones more for sending personal text messages.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how sending text messages got the mayor of Detroit in big trouble.

Here's one more compelling reason to think twice about the text messages you send; whether from your business phone or personal phone:

"Cell Phone Spy Extracts Deleted Texts, Data"

Reportedly this only works on phones with SIM cards, but I imagine a similar tool will not be far down the road.

Always remember, once you send an electronic message, it will in all possibility exist for the eternity of all the hardware that ever housed it.

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.