Why Hackers try to hack your Facebook Account?
- To Steal Information:The main motto behind hacking your account
can be stealing information.As Facebook is a place where you interact
with every person and discuss various issues like personal
matters,business deals,Education etc.So some one might wanted to know
your secrets about your Personal/Professional life will try to hack your account or hire any expert to hack your account.
- To ruin your Business:For few people Facebook is not
just a social networking site but its a great platform for many people
to expand their business and get wide popularity in just few days.Even
for a blogger like me,my Facebook account is very precious for me as it
is one of the major traffic source for my blog and also my Facebook Fanpage which
has about 2000 Followers.If such an account gets compromised then I
will be loosing Facebook Fanpages and many other groups linked with that
account.
Also Read:How To Get Mor Likes For a Facebook Fanpage/Increase Facebook Likes.
- For Money: As I already said that your Facebook
account is not just an account but its linked with your
Personal/Professional life.Some people might sell/hack your account to earn money.
- Just For Fun: Now this sounds weird but its true.Few hackers just hack Facebook accounts randomly for fun.Having passion to become a hacker is not a bad thing but using your skills in a wrong way may take such people into danger.
- Even though there are hundred other reasons why your Facebook can be
hacked,the above stated are just few common reasons why most of the
accounts gets compromised.
Does Facebook give Good Security to its users?
The answer is Yes.Facebook is very much concerned about its
security of its users.Though the privacy is not that good on Facebook
but security measures are very high.Its highly difficult to compromise a
Facebook account unless and until the Facebook user ignores few
security measures and falls into trap of the hacker.
Steps to Protect Your Facebook Account:
1.Keep a Strong Password:
This is the first thing every user must take care of.
Its very unfortunate to inform you that most of the passwords are either password/phone numbers/nick names/Date of births.
This makes
your account very weak and it will be very easy to compromise your account by guessing your password if the other person knows you personally or just few details of yours.
A strong password must contain atleast 8 digits with Small Letters (a,b,c etc), CAPS(A,D,E),Numbers(5,43) and special characters(_,@,$).
2.Setup Very Strong Security Question:
80% of the accounts are hacked by answering security question.Most of
the people ignore and become lazy while setting up their security
question and for the name sake they keep some nickname/Native places as
their security question.A person knowing a little information about you
can easily compromise your account by answering security question.
- If you have not yet setted security question to your Facebook Account ,Go to Account Settings->Security Tab there you can see the option setting up security question.
- If you have already setted up security question for your account then this option will not be visible to you.
- Facebook doesn't allow you to change your Security Question for security reasons.
3.Turn On Secure Browsing:
Always browser on secure https.The green https in your browser url
denotes secure browsing where as yellow/red mark on https denotes
insecure browsing.
Steps to Turn on Secure Browsing:
1.Go to Account Settings.
2.Then on the left side click on Security Tab.
3.In Security click on Secure Browsing and check the Box "Browse
Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible" then save the
changes.
4.Turn On Login Notifications:
By turning on login notification you will get a message to your
email/phone whenever you login from a new device.Facebook mobile service
is very poor and you rarely get any message from them to mobile but
their
email notifications service is pretty good and fast.
- Go to Login Notifications and Check both boxes then save the changes.
5.Set a different Password for Applications:
We daily use many applications on Facebook.Most of them wont ask you for
password but rarely you will find few applications that asks your
password to access the application.Most of the times such kind of
applications will turn out to be phishing scams.So Facebook has taken an
advanced step and gave users an option to set a different password for
applications.
- To set A Temporary password for applications go to App Password and click on generate.
6.Keep the account which is linked to Facebook Safe:
Your Facebook account may either linked to Gmail,Yahoo,Hotmail etc.In
order to protect your Facebook account you must give good protection to
your linked accounts.
7.Maintain Separate Public and Private Email Addresses:
As I already said that you must keep your linked account safe in order
to keep your Facebook account safe.So better keep the email id linked to
Facebook as private and dont share with others.
8.Hide your Primary Email ID from Other:
1.Go to your Account Info.
2.In Contact Info Section click on Edit button.
3.Now if you are asked to enter your password enter your password and submit.
4.Then you can set the preference as you like to your primary email address.
5.Choose only me if you want to hide it from others.
9.Keep a Glance at Recognised Devices:
Facebook asks you for device name whenever you login from a new device.Facebook stores the names of all these devices in your Recognised Devices section.If anytime you see any suspicious device click on remove.
10.Do not fall for Scams:
Facebook is the #1 target for scammers.They try to scam each and every possible way to trap you to hack your account and to earn money.
Most of the common scams you see on Facebook looks like Removing Facebook Timeline,Check out who viewed your profile most.
After timeline has introduced and once you enabled it then its not possible to
remove timeline.Also
there is no such application which helps you to know who viewed your
profile most,Facebook doesn't allow this.Such things are very eye
catching and most of the people want to know such things so they give a
try and fall in trap.Such kind of things are the primary targets for
scammers ,Beware of such things.
Conclusion:Learn Few things about Hacking:
The last but very important is knowing few things about hacking.I am not
forcing you to learn hacking but you must know few common attacks by
which your account can be compromised.The most widely used attacks are
Phishing,
Keylogging.Know a little about these things to stay away from such attacks.
