Saturday, February 4, 2012

BEST OF BEST WAYS TO SECURE YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT FROM HACKERS [MUST SEE]

Nothing could be worse than losing your own Facebook account or some one get access to your Facebook account and misuses it.

I saurabh admin of this blog is going to tell you to that,HOW TO SECURE YOUR PRECIOUS FB ACCOUNT FROM HACKERS??


Enable HTTPS login:
Recently Facebook brought HTTPS enabled login and this is first step to your Facebook account security. To enable this feature, go to edit account settings and under account security enable secure browsing.
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1. Go to Facebook and login to your account.

2. Go to the upper-right corner, click Account and select Account Settings.



3. Go to Account Security and click change.




4. Under Secure Browsing (https), click the Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible checkbox. Click the Save button.



Facebook is currently rolling out this feature, if the option isn’t available on your settings yet, check periodically until it appears. Definitely a smart move for anyone that uses Facebook on multiple (and possibly vulnerable) networks.



Facebook Device Login:
This is one of the best feature which will make sure that you will get notified whenever your account is compromised. When ever your account will be logged in from a new device, you will be receiving an Email for the same. To enable this feature, go to account settings > Account security and enable features which says “When a new computer or mobile device logs into this account”.

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Strong and complex password:
One simple way to get into someone account is by using hit and trial method for password. Brute force are usually useless these days because of complex security measures taken by Facebook. But if I know you as an individual, I may try to try couple of passwords like your Girlfriend name, your birth date and so on. Most of the time this works. If you wish to be secure your Facebook and other account, you should try using a complex password. More over by changing your password every month and using different password for different account will surely help.


Avoid Facebook spam applications:
If you are active user on Facebook, you must have seen spam in the form of Facebook applications like Mark Zuckerberg official announcement and so on. Try not to use any Facebook application if you have not read it’s review. These days most of such spam applications will spam your friend wall, will ask you to fill a survey or else they will add random people into your account. You can go to application setting page and see which all applications have access to your Facebook account. Disable those which you are not using.

Obviously there are more tips which will help you to keep yourself safe and secure but following above 5 you will lower down the possibilities of losing your Facebook account to hackers.

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