Facebook is the most popular social networking site with more than three million users, due to this Facebook is now one the most trolled or targeted website for hacker around the world. But, once your account is hacked, the hacker will have all your personal information.
Tips to prevent hacking of Facebook account
Facebook offers a number of tools that helps to keep your account safe and secure
1. Keep A Strong Password
Having a strong password will make it difficult for the hackers to gain access to your account. The password must be more than six character long and should contain a mixture of number, upper and lower case letters. It is recommended that the password must be reset on a regular basis.
Do not save your password in the browser.
2. Safeguard your Email address
Hide your email address from the Facebook timeline by going into the settings, further you can check the option 'Secure Browsing' and 'send me an email when a new computer or mobile device logs into this account.' Also, check the login notifications.
3. Prevent yourself from being Phished
Do not log into Facebook through other unrecognised FACEBOOK WIDGETS, and always check the Url in the address bar.
The aim of phishing is to unknowingly share their Facebook login details with the hackers and they do it by making the user unknowingly enter the detail of their login into a fake website.
Do not grant permission to unknown or unrecognised applications.
4. Install a good antivirus and update it regularly. Don't install any spam software or tool bars. Don't friend everyone, avoid the person who doesn't even have a profile picture. If you have not met him, be cautious.
Don't Believe all the emails.
5. Do not enter your login info into an app inside Facebook, some apps are malicious and these are phising applications and will compromise your account.
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