Enhance Your Facebook Account Security

Hacking someone’s Facebook account and then posting unacceptable content is the most popular method to take revenge these days. Recently hackers are been active in most areas of India and hacked thousands of  facebook accounts and post unwanted contents. This can happen to anyone and its better to take preventive measures rather to face embarrassing situations later. Here are the security aids you can use to protect your facebook account from being hacked.


How to Secure your Facebook Account from Hackers:

  • Login into your Facebook Account and go to Account Setting.

  • Choose Security tab from left window pane

Enable Secure Browsing:

  • In your Security Settings click on Secure Browsing tab

  • Here, do check mark on the Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible Checkbox and then click on save changes button.

Login Notification:

By enabling login notifications you will receive alerts via email and SMS whenever your Facebook account is logged in from an unknown device. You can associate your computer and mobile with your Facebook account. If your account is opened from another device you will receive an email and/or SMS with information about the location/name of the device. This will inform you that your account is been accessed by some unauthorized person.

Follow the steps to activate Login Notifications:

  • Click on the Login Notification in Security Setting
  • Do check mark on Email & Text Message button and then on save changes.

  • Now when anyone try to access your Facebook account then you will get an email and SMS with the location of the user who logged on your account.

How To Set Recognized Devices?

If you don’t want to recieve notifications from certain devices like your own computer or mobile then you can set them as recognized. If you have enabled Login Notifications then every time you login into your account from new (unrecognised) device it will ask you to give device name and an option to save it as Recognized device.

However if at some later stage you feel that you want to remove a device from recognized list you can do it by following simple steps.

Follow these steps To Remove Recognized Devices:

  • Click on the Recognized Device in Security Setting

  • Remove that particular device from your list and then click on save changes.

These are few security tips that you can implement to prevent yourself from being hacked.

As always, comments are welcomed 🙂





Published by Ashish

Hello friends, I am Ashish Barad, a tech lover student of MCA 2nd year from Nagpur, India.

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