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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?…
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Google+ Guide To Social Media Sharing: What, When & How To Share

Google+ – Google’s Social Network Google has been around since 2011 and was launched to counterattack Facebook and has collected more than 3 billion users, but the number of users is a bit tinted. In order to speed up the collection of…
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MacOS Threat Proves You Can Teach An Old Virus New Tricks

New macOS malware exploits old Windows tricks to get into your system. One of the many things that Apple devotees tout about their preferred technology is the perceived lack of malicious software targeting various operating systems in their…
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Facebook Guide To Social Media Sharing: What, When & How To Share

Facebook – The Most Popular Social Network The premiere social network ranks among the leading popular social networks worldwide. Facebook facts & figuresFacebook has 1.654 million users worldwide The site gets 7,2 billion…
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Twitter Guide To Social Media Sharing: What, When & How To Share

Twitter –  The Short Message Social Network Twitter is the second largest social network in the whole world of social media, ranking just behind Facebook. Twitter content streams news, images and videos based on just 140 characters. It was…