Secure Facebook Account — If you google ‘how to hack FB account’ you will find several ways to hack your account. A hacker can use several ways to get your account control from phishing, keylogging, or as simplest resetting your password. Each Facebook account contains a lot of personal information if its get public it would cause misuse of information & even furthermore blackmailing. So security for Facebook accounts is the prominent issue these days. But the Facebook security question : how to keep your Facebook account secure? How to secure my FB account & personal information from hackers? how to prevent hacking?Prevention of hacking and making your Facebook account secured is always better than blaming the Facebook system or hacker. If you have not kept your account secure, then it will be available easy to hack. So in the entire secure environment for your account, you have chances to get your account hacked. But if you follow some instructions and recommendations listed here to change Facebook security settings; you can keep your Facebook account safe & secured from hackers.
Things You Can Do To Help Keep Your Facebook Account Safe From Hackers
We, Abijita Foundation has bring top 10 ways to secure your Facebook Account.
1. Create strong password
Make sure that your password containing about 8 characters [It’s assume that min 8 character password is stronger]. Longer password would help you to have strong key as it takes more time to hack it. Make password which would be difficult to guess. Please avoid to including the username, pet name, birth date as your password, you can also use some online password generators but just make sure its secure & trustworthy. Don’t use the same password anywhere else. Change your password once every six months not only for Facebook but everywhere. Settings >> General >> Password >> Generate STRONG PASSWORD.
2. Mobile number confirmation
Confirming your mobile number strengthens the security. This helps you when you forget your account password since the Facebook will send you OTP to your mobile number & you can reset your account password. Account setting >> mobile >> add a phone number.
3. Prefer secure browsing
Setting >> Security >> Recognized Devices >> check all the devices >> confirm your identity remove any unrelated logged in devices >> save changes.
4. Activate Code Generator & Login Approval feature
Login Approval is the new security feature provided by the Facebook developers; it will need the security pin every time when you are trying to login to your FB account. For this setting, Settings >> Security >> Login approval >> Edit link >> checkout box to activate login approval >> save changes. After this Facebook asks you to go for set up, you will receive OTP on your mobile no & generate a code. If you aren’t able to get this option for your account; then please make sure Settings >> Security >> code ‘generator’ is NOT enabled. Secondly you can also activate Code Generator, go to Setting >> Security >> Code Generator < click get started By this option, you will get login access codes through your mobile number either by text message or FB app. To allow this open the ‘Code Generator ‘ section, click the option “get codes” enter your FB password & click “submit.
5. Remove previous activities & past sessions
Facebook shows all you previous logged-in & past active sessions. To check out your last active sessions, where you login from, & what device you had used to access your Facebook account; go to
Account settings >> Security >> Where You’re Logged In >> active session >> Edit
Now all past activities will be listed, click ‘end activity’ to kill all the activities that you feel unwanted.
6. Follow Security Checkup
Its always better to go for a security checkup. Click on the settings shortcut & select the privacy option. Here you will see 3 options:
Who can see my stuff? This option is used to control the exposed of all your posts; manage the audience for your all post. Try to make all your personal stuff visible to all your friends whom you trust.
Who can contact me? If you all this to everyone, you are ready to get unwanted and unknown friends requests. And by unknowingly we used to accept, and they lead to get all your info used against your account hacking.
Who can look me up? You can here make the following changes to tighten your Facebook account security.
Who can look you up using the email address you provided? >> Friends
Who can look you up using the phone number you provided? >> Friends
Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your Profile? >> No
APP SETTINGS: Go to Settings >> Apps >> App settings >> This app-option allows you to control the apps which are connected with your Facebook account. If you see any suspicious apps in the list then don’t hesitate to remove it.
Moreover, you also need to check more in profile option; you will see most of the options related to your profile display shown publicly; that includes your email ID, birthday, hometown, current city, etc. you can rather I suggest to limit the audience for your Facebook profile data.
7. Dodge Phishing
Avoid spam links on your Facebook posting or clicking on others postings. There are many attacks occurred including money scams using through Facebook messages, chats, etc. These phishing attacks will redirect to the fake website with the use of malicious links that can steal your all personal information or even more damage your device. There is also a chance that you will see that email came from Facebook but actually it’s come from phishing website. So for security reasons, never click the suspicious links. Never give your username & password to any website while responding to any email. Facebook or any social networking site never demand your password. For any Windows; always try to update your browsers to the latest version to ensure your browsers security.
8. Update Privacy settings
There are some manageable security & privacy settings from which you can ensure the security of your Facebook. First of all set the Login Alerts. You can decide to get login alerts via Facebook notifications via text messages, email. Get a warning when anybody logs into your account from an unrecognized device or browser.
Go to Settings >> Security >> Login Alerts >> edit & select the mode of getting notifications. The next important option is choose trusted contact who can surely help you if ever have trouble accessing your FB account & never accept any friend request from unknown people.
9. Keep updated & secured your system environment
Use up to date antivirus software. The updated antivirus software will help you to keep your computer more secure & safe. Try to scan your computer system for malware regularly. FYI; you can have malware even if you just watch a video via FB post, or if you visit a website claiming to offer special features, or by downloading any via the unsecured browser. So please be aware of such things.
10. Obey best but secured practices to use FB
Don’t share the password with anyone. Clear all history from the device. Always log out. Log out even from your own mobile in case it might get in someone’s hand or even get stolen so there may be chances to get your personal information can be misplaced. Disable the feature “remember password” on the web browser. Type your password only on your own & trusted computers. Otherwise, usually, hackers use keystroke keyloggers which record everything you type even password too.
