Secure Your Facebook Account

Facebook becomes an essential part of our social life. Because of its popularity the users of facebook on the target of hackers. Mostly familiar persons are looking to crack the security of facebook users. For an unknown person who never don't know you, its so difficult to hack your account because hackers use the combination of password according to your personnel info.  I have been posting some tips to secure your facebook account.

1. Change your Password once a month: This is the most simple task which you can perform to protect your account from being hacked. Make a complex password using digits and words as well as special symbols. It keeps protected from password being recognized by hackers.
Don’t keep your password releted to you mobile numbers, email or any other common name. It must be random. Use capital as well as small letters for your password. For example: P@s$w0rD is a strong password. It has numbers, symbols and also lower and upper case letter mixed. And it’s always better to keep changing your password at least once a month.

2. Hide Your Facebook email ID: Hackers usually hack into your email accounts first, and then send a forgot password request to the email id, and then hijack your account. This is because, any of your friends can easily see your email id associated with your Facebook account on your profile page.
To hide your email id, go to your profile > Edit information > Contact information , here you will see your email id. On the right side of your email id will be a drop down, click it, and select “only me” from the menu and save the changes.Now since you have kept your email id hidden, there is no way the hacker can send a password reset request! But you have to secure your Gmail account.

3. Change the answer ofyour Security Question: Using some social engineering skills, not only hackers but also friend can find your birthplace or any other related questions. So make sure your answer of security question is different and not to be easily guessed . For better security reasons, Facebook gives you an option of making your own security questions .Since you can do that, make a really random and easy question, say “What is your favourite song?” and keep the answer really simple like ”Ice Hockey” or “Football” and not any song name. Also make sure that you don’t tell anyone about these answers even in fun. This makes your security question severely hard to crack.

4. Setup Facebook login verification method: Facebook cares about its users very much, and that it why it has various advanced security option which you can turn on, like “ Login Notification"
Login Approvals is a highly advanced feature which adds another layer of security on your account. Every time you login to Facebook from any unknown device, Facebook will ask you to enter the device name first and save it. If anyone logged into your facebook account from an unknown device rather than you use it will send you an SMS that Unknown device logged into your facebook account. It is the probably the most advanced thing which you can do to protect your account from being used by a hacker. To turn on Login Approvals:
a. Go to the Security Settings by Account > Account Settings > Security.

b. Click on the Login Notification's section.

c. Check the box Email and Text Message . Save your changes. Make sure you have your mobile number verified with Facebook.

5. Always use Https protocol: If your facebook account use http protocol then it is not safe when you use your facebook account over wifi or public places like cyber cafe. So always use https encrypted protocol to save your account from being hacked. To turn on secure browsing
a. Go to the Security Settings by Account > Account Settings > Security.

b. Click on the Secure Browsing's section.

c. Check the box browse facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible.