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How to Protect Your
Facebook Account from
Hackers
Dinesh Gunathilaka
Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka
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How to Protect Your Facebook Account
from Hackers
Imagine you wake up early in the morning, just to find that you couldn’t log on to your Facebook
account. While you are just wondering about the reason for this lockout problem, your friend calls you
to check if you are fine seeing your weird Facebook status. At times like these, how do you say your
account is secure enough? How do you protect your Facebook account from hackers?
Steps
1.Never share your passwords with anyone including your friends and
family. Browsing through a secure connection is always advisable.
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2. Don’t get your news feed flooded with suspicious links. Ensure that you
don’t click on any links of games, apps, and others that you are not sure of. Avoid permitting
third party apps accessing your information. If you are not using any apps, it’s better to disable
or remove those apps.
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3.Add a secondary email ID to your account. In case your profile is hacked,
Facebook will send account recovery information to the secondary email ID also. Before these
steps, understand the privacy policy of Facebook.
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4.Ensure that you accept only persons you know as your friends as
when you accept strangers, you allow them to access your personal
information. It’s always better to avoid posting any financial or personal details.
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5.Change your passwords regularly and use unique passwords. Don’t
forget to activate your login notifications.
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6.Keep Your PC Security Updated. Nowadays one of the easiest processes to hack a
Facebook account is phishing attacks. That's why always use a trusted antivirus program to
detect those phishing sites. Besides it will help you to keep harmful keyloggers off your
computer. And most importantly never forget to update its database. Ever. In addition to
updating antivirus, keep your Firewall switched on and updated, use latest version of your
favorite browser and download OS security updates regularly.
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7.Keep it secure at all times. Facebook is like a best buddy, a chronicle of your life,
your diary of sorts and an outlet for your creativity. You can’t risk your Facebook account at any
cost and should certainly try all the possible ways to keep it as personal and secure as you can.
Tips
Do not reveal or give your password to any person.
Your password should be the unique.
Do not forget log out of your account when not using it.
Your password should not be your date of birth, your phone number, city name and state
name, etc. If it's obvious, do not use it.
Protect yourself and your kids from Facebook hackers with FAKE FB! Download from:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fake-fb-fake-profile-
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ALWAYS keep an eye on who your kids add as friends on the site. They could be adding
people they don't know.
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