How to protect Facebook Account From s 2013

Hello Everyone,

If you Google ”how to” the first or second result is how to Facebook account ,, So you can have good id how many people are srching the net on how to Facebook account .





There are various ways some people phishing attack, some crte logger and insert in your system while some try list of most common and you will amazed how often they work.

These simple steps will keep your Facebook account secure.


1.Enable email/sms notifiion while doing login to fb

This is a grt way to protect your Facebook account from s

Just go to Account >Account Settings in the top right corner then click “ Security” and you will see this –>
Go to Login Notifiion>Edit

Now you will get SMS every time you Login to Fb

2 .Enable Secure Browsing

How to Secure your Facebook Account from s:
step1: Go to Account Setting.
step2: Choose Security tab.
step3: Click on Secure Browsing tab, as shown above.
From now on you would notice https://www.facebook.com/ instd of http://www.facebook.com/.

3.Security Question

Set up a good security question which is not sy to guess. Not even your close friend can guess it.

What bad guys do ?

They change your security question and then when they have to login they click on forget link and by using security question they can login to your facebook account without even knowing your .

4. Close Your Facebook Active Sessions

Even if you close your browser without logging out of facebook account . you are still consider to be logged in that device. I don’t know how but remote s can gain access to this and your account very sily . So it’s always advisable to close you active session on the device if you are not planning to login for the long time from the same device.

Go to the security and look for Active Sessions option .

5.Check For The Url




Example of fake facebook page


Beware of phishing attack.

Check for the url in the address bar and login only if it says www.facebook.com. Often s use fake login page (phishing) and when you login through that page, your and username is automatically redirected to them.

6.:

Pick a unique, strong . Change your Facebook as often as possible, especially if you find any suspicious activity on your wall and don’t give your username and to anyone, not even your friends.

Don’t share your not even with your close friends, colues and family member.

7. Login with Private browsing only

If you are logging anywhere else then you home computer than it’s better to open it in private browsing only.It won’t store your username and or any other information and you don’t have to worry about sign out , you can just close the window.

8. Stay Updated

Don’t add people who you don’t know especially if it seems to be a fake profile. They are mostly spammers or s who can retrieve your personal information .

Don’t trust every third party Facebook appliions some of them might be spams .Use only those which are very popular and can be trusted.

For more info rd Facebook security page.

What to do if you got ?

First thing to do is check if you can login with , if yes then change your immediately and then delete all the post and messages that was post on your behalf and then setup more secure settings like one shown above.

In case you are not able to login with your old username and then report abuse that profile , just ask your friends to do that for you, more people report abuse faster that profile will be deleted.
Report to Facebook if your account was www.facebook.com//

Always add a secondary email id to your Facebook account , in case you don’t have access to your account , Facebook will send you recovery there.