Hello Everyone,
If you Google ”how to” the first or second result is how to hack Facebook account ,, So you can have good idea how many people are searching the net on how to hack Facebook account .
There are various ways some people phishing attack, some create keylogger and insert in your system while some try list of most common password and you will amazed how often they work.
These simple steps will keep your Facebook account secure.
1.Enable email/sms notification while doing login to fb
This is a great way to protect your Facebook account from hackers
Just go to Account >Account Settings in the top right corner then click “ Security” and you will see this –>
Go to Login Notification>Edit
Now you will get SMS every time you Login to Fb
2 .Enable Secure Browsing
How to Secure your Facebook Account from Hackers:
step1: Go to Account Setting.
step2: Choose Security tab.
step3: Click on Secure Browsing tab, as shown above.
From now on you would notice https://www.facebook.com/ instead of http://www.facebook.com/.
3.Security Question
Set up a good security question which is not easy to guess. Not even your close friend can guess it.
What bad guys do ?
They change your security question and then when they have to login they
click on forget password link and by using security question they can
login to your facebook account without even knowing your password.
4. Close Your Facebook Active Sessions
Even if you close your browser without logging out of facebook account . you are still consider to be logged in that device. I don’t know how but remote hackers can gain access to this and hacked your account very easily . So it’s always advisable to close you active session on the device if you are not planning to login for the long time from the same device.
Go to the security and look for Active Sessions option .
5.Check For The Url
Example of fake facebook page
Beware of phishing attack.
Check for the url in the address bar and login only if it says www.facebook.com. Often hackers use fake login page (phishing) and when you login through that page, your password and username is automatically redirected to them.
6.Password:
Pick a unique, strong password. Change your Facebook password as often as possible, especially if you find any suspicious activity on your wall and don’t give your username and password to anyone, not even your friends.
Don’t share your password not even with your close friends, colleagues and family member.
7. Login with Private browsing only
If you are logging anywhere else then you home computer than it’s better to open it in private browsing only.It won’t store your username and password or any other information and you don’t have to worry about sign out , you can just close the window.
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