Advanced Facebook Security Tips3394986
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Facebook is one of the famous and biggest social networking website across the Internet, it provides a lot of different features to protect your account from hacking attacks , millions of people are using Facebook for different purposes like to grow their business or to make friends etc.
Security is always a point of consideration for social networking websites and for webmaster, the main aim of this article is not to introduce some security and privacy tips, as title shows that we are going to talk about some advance security features that are available on your Facebook account.
Protection From Sniffing
Sniffing is one of the famous and common hacking in which an attacker can sniff your information while your information travel through the wire (for wired network) or through air (for wireless network), Facebook provides an exclusive feature of encryption means your Facebook first encrypt the information (your ID and password) than transfer it to the server.
To activate this feature go to your account setting-- >Account security --> Check on secure browsing (HTTPS). After all your browser turn http into https that is a secure channel to transfer information.
Attach Cell Phone To Your Facebook Account This is one of the most important feature to protect your account to being hacked, let suppose an attacker stole your ID and password of Facebook , than the attacker try to log in from your account from an unknown computer, Facebook block this log in even if the password and ID is correct, Facebook block this log in because of an unknown computer try to log in your account than Facebook will send a message into your number to verify this log in.
This all happen when you turn on this feature, go to your account setting-->account security--> mark check on log in approvals.
Some Other Tips Well the most important tips to secure your account has been discussed above, but it is not enough because you have to secure account from an attack like information gathering, hacker uses different social engineering techniques to get into your account, to get more and more information about yourself and your surrounding persons like friends, relatives and others.
Why an attacker do this things? The answer is depend on multiple factors for example this type of information gathering relate to your job and occupation, this may be related to your research on a specific field and many more reason. So you must consider all this thing as a security measures,
Use a strong privacy policy
Do not add an unknown person into your friend list
Limit yourself to share the personal information on Facebook
Do not share your unique creation (May be a research, tool, etc)
Last but not the least, secure your computer from keyloggers and different types of back doors, do update your operating system, use a smart and updated antivirus and firewall solution.
