How to Have a Secure Facebook Account
How to Have a Secure Facebook Account
How to Have a Secure Facebook Account
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How to Have a Secure Facebook Account
Posted: Dec 29, 2010 |Comments: 0
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What is Facebook?
Facebook is considered one of the most famous social network websites found on the internet. It’s popularity made online hackers take advantage of any simple bug, exploit, and user’s stupidity that they could find in order to spread their website, virus, worm, or trojan.
Below are some tips you should bear in mind when it comes to creating your first Facebook account. These tips will ensure your account stays safe against spammers and phishers.
1- When creating your Facebook account, make sure you choose a strong password. A strong password contains a mix of capital and small letters, numbers, and characters such as $ or # . These kinds of passwords will make it impossible for any hacker to apply a bruteforce attack on your account. A bruteforce attack is a an attack in which the hacker uses a software that tests passwords found in a text file, on you account, called dictionary text file. Now the trick is to make sure that your Facebook password is totally different than any password you use on any other online account such as your email password and website passwords. This way, if your email password is compromised, your Facebook password will remain unknown.
2- When logging to your Facebook account, make sure you use the official Facebook
