How to protect your facebook account from Hackers
Facebook is the best social networking website where people chat with their friends,share funny things,pictures etc.By this time almost every Internet user in on Facebook.Its a platform for many people to expand their business and increase their product sales as well.Every day 600,000 accounts gets compromised.This shows how massive attacks going on facebook users and importance of Facebook Security Measures.
After timeline has introduced and once you enabled it then its not possible to remove timeline.Also there is no such application which helps you to know who viewed your profile most,Facebook doesn't allow this.Such things are very eye catching and most of the people want to know such things so they give a try and fall in trap.Such kind of things are the primary targets for scammers ,Beware of such things.
Why Hackers try to hack your Facebook Account?
- To Steal Information:The main motto behind hacking your account can be stealing information.As Facebook is a place where you interact with every person and discuss various issues like personal matters,business deals,Education etc.So some one might wanted to know your secrets about your Personal/Professional life will try to hack your account or hire any expert to hack your account.
- To ruin your Business:For few people Facebook is not just a social networking site but its a great platform for many people to expand their business and get wide popularity in just few days.Even for a blogger like me,my Facebook account is very precious for me as it is one of the major traffic source for my blog and also my Facebook Fanpage which has about 2000 Followers.If such an account gets compromised then I will be loosing Facebook Fanpages and many other groups linked with that account.
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- For Money: As I already said that your Facebook account is not just an account but its linked with your Personal/Professional life.Some people might sell/hack your account to earn money.
- Just For Fun: Now this sounds weird but its true.Few hackers just hack Facebook accounts randomly for fun.Having passion to become a hacker is not a bad thing but using your skills in a wrong way may take such people into danger.
- Even though there are hundred other reasons why your Facebook can be hacked,the above stated are just few common reasons why most of the accounts gets compromised.
Does Facebook give Good Security to its users?
The answer is Yes.Facebook is very much concerned about its security of its users.Though the privacy is not that good on Facebook but security measures are very high.Its highly difficult to compromise a Facebook account unless and until the Facebook user ignores few security measures and falls into trap of the hacker.
Steps to Protect Your Facebook Account:
1.Keep a Strong Password:
This is the first thing every user must take care of.
Its very unfortunate to inform you that most of the passwords are eitherpassword/phone numbers/nick names/Date of births.This makes your account very weak and it will be very easy to compromise your account by guessing your password if the other person knows you personally or just few details of yours.
A strong password must contain atleast 8 digits with Small Letters (a,b,c etc), CAPS(A,D,E),Numbers(5,43) and special characters(_,@,$).
2.Setup Very Strong Security Question:
80% of the accounts are hacked by answering security question.Most of the people ignore and become lazy while setting up their security question and for the name sake they keep some nickname/Native places as their security question.A person knowing a little information about you can easily compromise your account by answering security question.
- If you have not yet setted security question to your Facebook Account ,Go to Account Settings->Security Tab there you can see the option setting up security question.
- If you have already setted up security question for your account then this option will not be visible to you.
- Facebook doesn't allow you to change your Security Question for security reasons.
3.Turn On Secure Browsing:
Always browser on secure https.The green https in your browser url denotes secure browsing where as yellow/red mark on https denotes insecure browsing.
Steps to Turn on Secure Browsing:
1.Go to Account Settings.
2.Then on the left side click on Security Tab.
3.In Security click on Secure Browsing and check the Box "Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible" then save the changes.
4.Turn On Login Notifications:
By turning on login notification you will get a message to your email/phone whenever you login from a new device.Facebook mobile service is very poor and you rarely get any message from them to mobile but their email notifications service is pretty good and fast.
- Go to Login Notifications and Check both boxes then save the changes.
5.Set a different Password for Applications:
We daily use many applications on Facebook.Most of them wont ask you for password but rarely you will find few applications that asks your password to access the application.Most of the times such kind of applications will turn out to be phishing scams.So Facebook has taken an advanced step and gave users an option to set a different password for applications.
- To set A Temporary password for applications go to App Password and click ongenerate.
6.Keep the account which is linked to Facebook Safe:
Your Facebook account may either linked to Gmail,Yahoo,Hotmail etc.In order to protect your Facebook account you must give good protection to your linked accounts.
7.Maintain Separate Public and Private Email Addresses:
As I already said that you must keep your linked account safe in order to keep your Facebook account safe.So better keep the email id linked to Facebook as private and dont share with others.
8.Hide your Primary Email ID from Other:
1.Go to your Account Info.
2.In Contact Info Section click on Edit button.
3.Now if you are asked to enter your password enter your password and submit.
4.Then you can set the preference as you like to your primary email address.
5.Choose only me if you want to hide it from others.
9.Keep a Glance at Recognised Devices:
Facebook asks you for device name whenever you login from a new device.Facebook stores the names of all these devices in your Recognised Devices section.If anytime you see any suspicious device click on remove.
10.Do not fall for Scams:
Facebook is the #1 target for scammers.They try to scam each and every possible way to trap you to hack your account and to earn money.
Most of the common scams you see on Facebook looks like Removing Facebook Timeline,Check out who viewed your profile most.
After timeline has introduced and once you enabled it then its not possible to remove timeline.Also there is no such application which helps you to know who viewed your profile most,Facebook doesn't allow this.Such things are very eye catching and most of the people want to know such things so they give a try and fall in trap.Such kind of things are the primary targets for scammers ,Beware of such things.
Conclusion:Learn Few things about Hacking:
The last but very important is knowing few things about hacking.I am not forcing you to learn hacking but you must know few common attacks by which your account can be compromised.The most widely used attacks are Phishing,Keylogging.Know a little about these things to stay away from such attacks.
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