Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Facebook is the best social networking website where people chat with there friends, share funny things etc. By this time every Internet user is on Facebook Its a platform for many people to expand there business and increase there products sale as well. Everyday 600,000 accounts have been compromised. This show how massive attacks going on Facebook users and importance of Facebook Security Measures.
Why Hackers Try To Hack Your Account ?
- To Steal Information: The main motto behind hacking your account can be stealing your Information. As Facebook is a place where you can 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 a hacker to do so.
- To Ruin Your Business: For many people Facebook is not just a social networking site but its a great platform for many people to expand there business and get wide popularity is just few days. Even for a blogger like me, my Facebook account is very precious to me as its is one of the major traffic source for my blog and also my Facebook Fan Pages Which contains a number of likes. If such an account gets compromised than i will be loosing my Facebook Fan Pages and many other groups linked with that account.
- 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 sound weird but its true. Some 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 a danger.
Even though there are hundred other reasons for hackers to hack your account.
Does Facebook Gives Good Security To Its Users ?
The answer is YES. Facebook is very much concerned with its security of its users. Though the privacy is not that good on Facebook but security measures are high. Its highly difficult to compromise a Facebook account unless the Facebook user ignores few security measures and falls into trap of Hacker.
Steps To Protect Your Account:
1. Create A Strong Password:
This is the first thing every user may take care of.
Its very unfortunate to tell you that most of the passwords are either phone number/nick name/date of birth.
This makes your account very weak and it will be very easy to compromise your account by guessing the password if the other person know your personality or just few detail of yours
A strong password must contain at least 8 digits with Small Letters(a,b,c) , CAPS(A,B,C), Numbers(1,5,9) 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 became lazy while setting up there security question and for the name sake they keep some nick name/native places as there security questions. A person knowing a little information about you can easily answer your security question and hacks your account
If you have not yet set security questions to your Facebook account.
Go to Account Settings---> Security Tab there you can see the option setting up security question
If you have already set your security question than this option will not show you.
3. Turn On Secure Browsing:
Always browse on secure https:// . The green https:// in your browser url denotes secure browsing whereas yellow/red mark on https:// denotes insecure browsing.
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4. Turn On Log In Notification:
By turning on log in notification you will get a message to your email/phone number whenever you log in from a new device. Facebook mobile service is very poor and you rarely get any message from them to mobile but there email notification service is pretty good and fast.
Go to Log in Notification Button and check both boxes than save changes.
5. Set A Different Password For Applications:
We daily use many application on Facebook. Most of you wont ask you for password but rarely you will find few applications that asks your password to get access. Most of the times such type 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 on generate.
6. Keep The Account Safe Which Is Linked With Your Facebook Account:
Your Facebook account may either linked with g mail,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 Address:
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 linked to Facebook secret and don't share with friends
8. Hide Your Primary Email ID From Other:
1. Go To 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 save.
4. Then you can set your 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 Recognized Devices:
Facebook asks you for device name whenever you log in from a new device. Facebook stores the names of all these devices in your Recognized Devices Section. If any time you see suspicious device click on remove.
10. Do Not Fall For Scams:
Facebook is the #1 target for spammers. They try to scam each and every possible way to trap you to hack your account 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 than its not possible to remove timeline. Also there is no such application which helps you to know who viewed your profile the most,Facebook does not allow this. Such things are very eye catching and most of the people want to know such things so that give a try and fall in trap. Such of things are primary targets for scammers, Beware Of Such Things
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