The writers here at Digital Information World work hard to help you build up your social media marketing account. Obviously, you’ll never get anywhere without their advice. But before you get too deep into your social marketing plan you need to consider what you can do to increase the security of the accounts you build. Why work so hard to build them up over years when a hacker can tear them down in a day? There are a number of examples where a hacker breaks into a branded social media account to harvest data, or just have some LOLs. Here are some proactive steps that you can take to keep your social media account secure, and lower your chances of getting hacked dramatically. Brute Force hacks stopped by strong passwords. Brute force hacks are commonly caused by people choosing very poor passwords. This was rumoured to be the cause of the infamous hacking incident called The Happening where individual accounts were hacked. The rumours that iCloud was hacked weren’t true.To show you another example of how people and businesses still don’t understand strong passwords, a recent Gizmodo article looked at the most popular passwords still being used:
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