
Android malware found pre-installed on over 30 different Android smartphones
The Independent reports.....This issue that affects big names in the smartphones from Samsung, LG and Google. According to a cyber security firm over 30 different Android smartphones and tablets have been found to have had malware preinstalled…

New website for Alternative Finance Business Loans
Team Discovery is pleased to launch a new peer-to-peer lending website for our client “Alternative Finance Business Loans (AFBL)”….Website URL: https://www.alternativefinance.loans/Many of our own clients may benefit from the…

Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
This is the story of how River City Media (RCM), Alvin Slocombe, and Matt Ferris, accidentally exposed their entire operation to the public after failing to properly configure their Rsync backups.The data from this well-known, but slippery…

Instagram Guide To Social Media Sharing: What, When & How To Share
Instagram – Photo Sharing in Real Time
Instagram facts & figures400 million users worldwide use Instagram each month and
the network is visited 770 million times per day.Whereas Pinterest is focused on brand communication,…

Pinterest Guide To Social Media Sharing: What, When & How To Share
Pinterest – The Branding Network
Pinterest facts & figuresPinterest has 100 million active users worldwide and
gets up to 300 million page views a day.Tips for cross-promoting your blog posts on Pinterest
On Pinterest,…

LinkedIn Guide To Social Media Sharing: What, When & How To Share
LinkedIn – The International Business Network
LinkedIn facts & figures
LinkedIn is the biggest international business network. The network mainly serves the purpose of contacting and networking with business contacts, recruiting…

The problems with forcing regular password expiry
Why CESG - now part of the NCSC - decided to advise against this long-established security guideline.Regular password expiry is a common requirement in many security policies. However, in the Password Guidance published…

Let them paste passwords
One of the things people often tweet to https://twitter.com/ncsc are examples of websites which prevent you pasting in a password. Why do websites do this? The debate has raged - with most commentators raging how annoying it is.So why do…

What does the NCSC think of password managers?
People keep asking the NCSC if it's OK for them to use password managers (sometimes called password vaults). If so, which ones? Who should use them - private citizens, small businesses, massive enterprises? And how should people use them?…