When Hackers Sneak Into Your Facebook Account
Some helpful tips to drive away hackers sneaking in your email address. Get to know their ways of ripping off usernames and passwords from people's accounts.
Some helpful tips to drive away hackers sneaking in your email address. Get to know their ways of ripping off usernames and passwords from people's accounts.
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<strong>When</strong> <strong>Hackers</strong> <strong>Sneak</strong> <strong>Into</strong><br />
<strong>Your</strong> <strong>Facebook</strong> <strong>Account</strong>
How nice and fulfilling it would be if you have many friends and get lots of<br />
facebook likes in your account. Now you have the prestige of being known and<br />
friendly to others. But have you ever given it a thought that there might come<br />
a time that your account will get hacked by others? Surely you've heard a lot of<br />
complaints with this ongoing crisis among facebook users. And you might be<br />
included in the long list of these victims.<br />
If you don't want your account to get hacked by others, you must follow a<br />
series of precautions which will strengthen the security of your facebook<br />
account.
Safeguard <strong>Your</strong> Email Address<br />
1. Start off by customizing your account. Head straight to the Edit Profile,<br />
Contact Information and click on the icon beside your email address. Hit<br />
the check on the 'only me' button. This prevents the hacker from<br />
tracking your account, because some only need your email address in<br />
sneaking inside your account. One of those methods done by most<br />
hackers is called 'phishing'; wherein users are often tricked in providing<br />
their confidential account information by logging in to an identical web<br />
page similar to <strong>Facebook</strong>. It is matched and paired up with a server sided<br />
script to track the usernames and passwords of their victims.<br />
2. <strong>When</strong> going to account settings, check “secure browsing” and “Send me<br />
an email when a new computer or mobile device logs into this account”<br />
option and have it saved. This gives your hacker a hard time in searching<br />
for your account or email address online.
Hacking Types<br />
1. Phishing - common and easy among hackers. They get passwords and<br />
usernames by luring <strong>Facebook</strong> users into logging in into identical web<br />
pages of the site. But the difference with this page is that it is paired up<br />
with a server sided script to automatically keep track of your credentials.<br />
To dodge phishing, be wary and doubtful of several apps and widgets<br />
showing from time to time with your account. Check the URL of its<br />
address bar before logging in. And also, avoid logging in to several<br />
<strong>Facebook</strong> widgets. Always do the Safe Search when searching on<br />
something.<br />
2. Keylogging - type of computer virus that tracks down keystrokes.<br />
Keyloggers can be installed in a computer system. It works even more if<br />
the hacker has personal access on the victim's computer. To avoid this<br />
hacking scheme, avoid downloading free toolbars and software online.<br />
Install a good antivirus and have your PC updated regularly if you have<br />
time.<br />
3. Social Engineering - a hacking scheme which involves sending you an<br />
email in your account to change your password. Usually, these scheme<br />
will pretend to be <strong>Facebook</strong> which will make you believe and follow its<br />
instructions. This type of hacking will ask you to change your password<br />
to 12345678 or make you do something weird, like sending out your<br />
confidential details only to prove that you are an active user on<br />
<strong>Facebook</strong>. To avoid this scheme, increase your awareness during chats<br />
and discussions.<br />
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