How to make your Facebook account secure
Now a days its not very hard to access someone's
facebook account. Millions of peoples use facebook daily.If u want to
know how to make your Facebook account secure then read this article
carefully and follow the below steps to make your account secure.
Steps To Prevent your Facebook Account From Hackers:
1. Create Strong Password
You already have your facebook
password however
it is advisable for you to make sure your Facebook password is not
similar to your facebook mobile number,username or any other online
accounts e.g. email, blog, hosting etc
- To change your password, go to Account Settings > General > Password.
- The best passwords would have the combination of small and capital letters, numbers and symbols.
2. Confirm your mobile number
Confirming
your mobile number is very important and one of many ways to enhance your account security
on Facebook. This way, even when you lose or forget your password,
Facebook will be able to send you a new one via SMS.
- To add your mobile number, go to Account Settings > Mobile and click on Add a Phone.
- Select your country and set the mobile carrier before clicking Next.
- Now you will be given an instruction to send an SMS to the given number.
- Follow the instructions to get a code via SMS, and then enter the code into the column.
- You also have the option to Share your number with friends on Facebook and Allow friends to text me from Facebook.
- Select your preferences and click Next.
- Now your mobile phone is successfuly registered with Facebook, and when the need arises, this connection will be useful to reactivate your Facebook account.
3. Activate Secure browsing, Now
Among other things, to make sure your browsing activity within Facebook is safe, you can turn on the Secure browsing option. By doing this, you automatically limit all external applications that are integrated with Facebook from doing any harm or taking your personal information without your knowledge or approval.- To start securing your account, click on the drop down menu from the top right corner of your Facebook account and go to Account Settings.
- Select Security from the left menu.
- At the Secure Browsing section, click on the Edit link at the right.
- The option panel will appear, ‘check’ the box Browse Facebook on a secure connection then click on the Save Changes button.
4. Activate ‘Login Approvals’
Login approvals is an extended security feature offered by Facebook, and it will require you to enter a security code each time you try to access your Facebook account from unrecognized devices. To activate Login Approvals, go to Account Settings > Security, look for Login Approvals and click on the Edit button.- An option to activate Login Approvals will appear, tick the check box to activate.
- A popup window will appear with descriptions of login approvals, click on the Set Up Now button to continue.
- If you already register your mobile number, Facebook will automatically send you a code via SMS. Enter this code in the given box and click Submit Code.
- Now you have completed with Login Approvals request, click Next to continue.
- Next, Facebook will offer you to setup a Code Generator from your mobile phone; this is useful in case you are unable to receive SMS. Click Continue.
5. Disconnect Previous Active Sessions
- The good thing about Facebook is that it lets you know about your previous active sessions, where you login from, and what devices you used to access your Facebook account. Now to make sure your account is safe, from the Account Settings > Security page, look for ‘Active Sessions‘ and click on Edit.
- Now all previous sessions will be listed, together with the current active session at the top of the list. Click on the link ‘End Activity‘ to kill the activities from other devices.
6. Avoid Spam Links
Facebook is serious about spam and is always enhancing its features to
make sure you are safe from being a victim to scams. The types of
attacks include money scams through direct or indirect requests via Facebook messages, chat etc, phishing links that will redirect you to fake websites, malicious links
that could retrieve your personal information or even harm your
computer. There are also chances you may receive emails from ‘Facebook’
but it is actually from a phishing website, this modus operandi is part
of a scam.
There are many ways you can avoid being a victim:
- Never click on suspicious links whenever or wherever you find it, even if it came from your friends. If you receive a link, always take the extra step of asking your friend what the link is to confirm that they had sent it. Usually these links are ‘sent’ without the sender’s knowledge. This includes all links that appear in your Facebook Chat, Messages, friend’s status post or even from your email.
- Never give out your username or password to anyone, including websites with suspicious links and layouts. Giving your passwords freely could jeopardize the security of your personal information on Facebook.
- Log in only at www.facebook.com and not from any other link or website, unless you are accessing via Facebook App.
- Update your browser to its latest version to ensure your browser’s security is up to date so it would detect and alert you with a warning when you are navigating to a suspected phishing site.
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