Top 4 reasons why your facebook account is unsafe and may get hacked
Since Facebook is the largest social networking site in the world, there any many risks of privacy invasion and hacking in Facebook.
Here is a short list of how your privacy and online security is at risk and some measures to prevent them.
Here is a short list of how your privacy and online security is at risk and some measures to prevent them.
1. You don’t see the address bar before typing your password.
Phishing
is the easiest method used by hackers to obtain anybody’s
password.
If you
don’t know about this method, let me tell you this method fools the victim to
believe that it’s a login page of a website whereas it’s a website created by
hacker.
The only way to prevent getting hacked by
this method is that you should always look
at the address bar before entering your password.
This is how a phishing website looks.
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| Facebook phishing site screenshot |
2. You are obsessed with facebook apps.
Facebook
is filled with innumerable apps that a very much tempting and you think of
giving them a try! But the problem with these apps is that you can’t tell that these apps won’t misuse
your information and hack your account.
If you remember, then these apps ask you for permissions something like
“1. Access your personal information,
friends list , etc.
2. Post on your behalf
3. Blah!blah!blah”
If you know English
I don’t need to tell you what this means.
You can only hope that these apps won’t
misuse your personal information and the permissions given by you unless you
completely trust the application.
If you have
already subscribed to many apps then I suggest you to promptly remove them from
your applications.
Here’s the
method is following screenshots
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3. You easily believe anything easily.
Next
thing in the list is that you easily believe what is shared on facebook.
If
someone guarantees to do something that is seemingly impossible. Then it’s
false and you’ll end up in a phishing site or a malware (Malicious Software) .
A
few general things you need you know is :
1.
You can never know who views your
profile because it is against the policies of Facebook. All the applications
claiming to do so are fake .
2.
There is no website or software in the
world which can hack anybody’s account by just entering his/her Facebook Id or
something. These softwares are created by hackers to hack your account.
3.
There is no way you can get thousands
of friend requests or followers very short time.
4. Last but not least, you chose an easy password
The
most easy and popular way to hack an account is to guess the victims password.
You
are easily vulnerable if you keep your password something like
“password, 123456 , your phone number,
birthdate, and other such common passwords”
It
is advised that your password must be combination of uppercase and lowercase
letters with special symbols and numbers
in it..
5. Your turn now:
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