11 Ways To Secure Your Facebook Account From Hackers

Facebook is a very comprehensive social media network. Now this network shifted very popularly all across the world. In the beginning this network was restricted for college students of Mark Zuckerberg, Then this networks was for all the college students. And now this website can be utilized by each and every person beyond 13 years.

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Many circumstances arise of Facebook Hacking  So in this post I will explain you the technique to secure your facebook account from hackers. As there are so numerous hacking methods by which a hacker can easily crack your facebook password! So protection is better than cure.

11 Ways To Secure Your Facebook Account From Hackers 

There are many ways by which hackers can charges on your account So below I have posted the various methods to secure your account.

#1 Create Strong Password

Always create a strong password of your account. As there must not be a password which gets easily figured by the hackers. As there is a hacking technique called dictionary attacks which used to compare your password with every  English word. So if you have the password in simple English words then it will get easily tracked by the hackers so always use complex passwords like “creativetricks!@#$%“.

#2 Confirm Your Mobile Number

Confirm your mobile number in your facebook account.This will help you to reset your password when you lost it. And you will also get the notification about the change of password in your mobile.

#3 Email Address

• Always keep your email id hidden from everybody for that go to my profile, and personal information, and let you id be visible to only you.

• Also, remove all your email addresses, and change the primary one as the one which is known to you only.

• Now for additional safety, use the secure browsing and send an email when logged into from another browser option active in your account.

#4 Activate ‘Login Approvals’

In Facebook login approvals is an extended security feature and it will require you to enter a security code each time you try to access your Facebook account from unrecognized devices. So to activate Login Approvals, go to Account Settings > Security, look for Code Generator and click on the Edit button and setup the ways to get codes for login.

#5 Social Engineering Attacks

This could involve any trick that could fool you into giving out your personal details and also from your security questions in general discussion to emails that could be a spam or somebody from Facebook requesting you to change your personal Facebook details. These all are spam emails Be aware of these emails.

Also to prevent yourself from being fooled in such tricks stay cautious all the time and also keep security question to which answers would remain restrained to you only. Facebook will never ask you to change the password so all the related emails can fool you and your facebook account can be in danger.

#6 Disconnect Previous Active Sessions

Facebook provides a very helpful feature to track active sessions.You can see that by going  Account Settings > Security page, look for ‘When You Have logged in‘ and  kill all the unusual activities from this. This will log out your facebook account from that devices which you have killed.

#7 Don’t ‘Keep Me Logged In’

When you are at the login screen of facebook there you see an option Keep Me Logged In, Don’t keep it check as this will remain your account logged in that device and your account can be easily accessed by any other who is able to use the device, so also, remember the option Keep Me Logged In to be unticked each time you log in.

#8 Phishing Attacks

These are more common attacks by hackers to a user. In this attack hacker sends a link to a user and the link will open the exactly same looking facebook page but the only difference is that when you enter you facebook ID and password that will not go to facebook it will be sent to the hacker. So don’t open such links.

#9 Keyloggers

Keylogger is a virus that can be installed into your computer by a cracker, and keep a track of all the activities happening in there and it can be done remotely, and even more easily if the cracker has personal access to the computer. Also, this keylogger will record all your keystrokes with screenshots.

#10 Incognito

When you are using the account in public such as in the hotel or in café use private mode or Incognito as it will prevent any cookies or web history from getting stored. But if you do not find any option then delete all the cookies and web history when you log out.

#11 Use Secure Connection

Facebook account should be set to use the secure connection that is denoted by HTTP before the URL address and this can be set by going to settings>General> browser connection. You should always use VPN for login.

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So above are the traditional ways by which your facebook account can be in danger if not followed correctly. By getting conscious from these, you can easily secure your facebook account. And this will protect all your personal chats and much more of your facebook account which you don’t want to share with anyone. Hope you like the post. Don’t forget to share this. Leave a comment below about your experience with facebook hacking attacks 

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Creative Tricks is created by Sandeep Singh – 2nd year engineering student from NIIT (Vikaspuri, India). I’m share a common dream of making Creative Tricks a top technology Site/Blog of India.