Saturday 1 December 2012

How to Protect Your Facebook Accounts From Hackers


Its Difficult task To Maintain Security Of Your Facebook Account Without A Prior Knowledge Of Hacking. For this reason today we are posting an article specifying countermeasures to avoid hacking.

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Lets Start with the  counter measures :

-Changes to be made in settings :

First of all log in to your facebook account then go to account settings then after go to security tab.Then a new Security window will appear, in this window there are two options.
First one is :
Secure Browsing- Enable it.
When You use secure browsing.Your Default Connection Sets To Https Insted of Http. Http Stands For Hyper Text Transfer Protocal. When We use  Http Our Browser And Server Create Communication In Normal Language whereas Https stands For Hyper Text Transer Protocal Secure, When We Use Https Browser and Server Talks In encrypted Language. So Chances Of Man In The Middle Attack Gets Reduced. In ‘MITM’ a Third Person or Brodly Says Hacker Can Listen The Communication Between Browser And Server.

Second one is :
LOGIN NOTIFICATIONS: Enable Login Notifications.
Enable Both Email And Phone Notifications. It is Necessary To enable Login Notifications Because facebook can notify you when your account is accessed from a computer or mobile device that you haven’t used before.
With this two steps we are done with settings part.

 
Some techniques to prevent Hacking of your account :

  •  Keep Your Primary Email Address(ie. gmail,yahoo,hotmail e.t.c) Password diferent from facebook password never Keep Both Password Same.
    This is because of a reason that if Someone Hacks Your facebook account and changes Your facebook  Password.. Then You can Get Back Your Password By Clicking On forget Password link.But If Both Password Are Same.Then Anybody can Change Both Passwords easily and You will Lose Your Accounts For Forever.
  • So Never Give Your login id and password On false Websites. If You saw a link Like… Faecbuk.com Or Facbooook.com Then Never Give Your Email address and Passwords there. Always enter Your Password To Only “Facebook.Com  Otherwise You Will Be hacked.
  • Keylogging Is Also a hacker’s popular method By Which they Can easily Hack your account.
    The Entire Process Is known As Keylogging and The Software Used In it known as keylogger. Keylogger is most intelligent tool to secretly capture all typed keystrokes activities on your computer system And Save Them In A File. That File Can Be Sent To Hacker Via Internet.
    To Avoid keylogging. Always Use a Good License Version Antivirus Software and Regularly Update and Scan With It.
  • Always Give A unpredictible Security Question Answer.
  • Never Add  Unknown Persons In Your Account.Facebook Have A Vulnerablity To bypass Security By Using Of Your Three Friends.
  • Avoid Hacking With Trojan. Always Use a Good License Version Antivirus Software and Regularly Update and Scan With It.One More Important Thing Trojan Can Be Binded Or crypted With Any Software,Image,Video Or Any Kind of File That Makes Them Undetectable.So Never Download Anythings From suspected Sites Like ziddu Or Mediafire.
So Guys…These are the common most methods by which profile can be hacked by hackers…So next Time when you use facebook keep remember these countermeasures….