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How to protect your Facebook account from been hacked!

Protect yourself against Facebook phishing

What is Phishing

Phishing is a type of attack, were the attacker will pretend to be from a trusted site or pretend to be a legitimate site. This attacker achieve phishing by
  • Site cloning ( making an identical website which is hard to identify), although the DNS address(domain name system) or website address will have a slight and almost non-noticeable difference. When user login on the fake-site, the attackers will have his login credentials thus having legitimate access to the his
    account.
  • Sending an Email to asking for username and password or PIN(personal identification number) pretending to be from facebook admin.

Protection measures!

  • When surfing the internet beware of link to a particular site especially if the site contains sensitive information like bank, social network(eg. Facebook) etc. address like“www.facebook.com.profile.jnjknkjjk.io"/login” is not a legitimate address, because the “jnjknkjjk.io” makes the address non genuine.
  • Always bear in your mind that, Facebook will never ask for your password through email or other means. The only place they will ask you login credentials(username and password is through their site or apps).
  • Be vigilant, if for example you see an abnormal wall post on FAF(friends and family) wall quickly inform him and make sure you suggest he reset his password and delete the message.
  • When you receive SPAM(stupid pointless annoying messages) from FAF, make sure to advice him to reset his password immediately.
  • Use a security question. This will help you when someone shutdown your account.
  • When using login credentials to log into a particular site be sure the site is legitimate! Because phishers can act as one thus before you realized it you have lost control to your account!
  • Do not use single password on many websites!
  • Use the latest browsers that has anti-phishing. Example Google Chrome, IE 7 upward, Firefox etc.
  • Make sure you create a strong password combination! Weaker passwords are very simple to guess using brute force(this is a method that is used to get password through use of all possible combination). If one create password with letters only, numbers only or numbers and letters this is called a weak password! But if password is created with the combination of capital letters, small letters, numbers and special characters is considered as a strong password! A password like “vsd$%*?&(235” will take a very long time to crack than password like “Salimsalisu”.

    NB: The above solutions are not limited to Facebook alone!

     If you think you are been hacked report here 

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