A Complete Guide to Facebook Security

Have you ever wondered about what you can do to be more secure on Facebook? Have any of these questions ever crossed your mind?

     

• What can you do to protect your Facebook account when accessing it in public?
• What should you do if someone hijacks your Facebook account?
• How you can use Facebook’s advanced security settings to protect yourself?
• How can you help in keeping you and your friends safe and secure while online?

So in response, Facebook have put together a Guide to Facebook Security that’s fun to read and easy to understand. In only 20 pages, Facebook explains how to protect your account, avoid scammers, and configure advanced Facebook security settings. If you’re not using one-time passwords, secure browsing, or even tracking your account activity, this Facebook Security guide shows you how. It even explains why account thieves and malware pushers want your account.

This Facebook Security guide explains how you can:

• Protect your Facebook account.
• Avoid the scammers on Facebook.
• Use advanced security settings on Facebook.
• Recover a hacked Facebook account.
• Stop imposters.

Facebook Security guide is not only fact-filled – it’s also free! If you don't want to read the full Guide on Facebook Security, below are top tips for staying secure of Facebook.To download your copy of the Facebook Security Guide Click Here.

Top Tips for Staying Secure on Facebook:

• Only Friend people you know.
• Create a good password and use it only for Facebook.
• Don’t share your password.
• Change your password on a regular basis.  
• Share your personal information only with people and companies that need it.
• Log into Facebook only ONCE each session. If it looks like Facebook is asking you to log in a second time, skip the links and directly type www.facebook.com into your browser address bar.
• Use a one-time password when using someone else’s computer.
• Log out of Facebook after using someone else’s computer.
• Use secure browsing whenever possible.
• Only download Apps from sites you trust.
• Keep your anti-virus software updated.
• Keep your browser and other applications up to date.
• Don’t paste script (code) in your browser address bar.
• Use browser add-ons like Web of Trust and Firefox’s NoScript to keep your account from being hijacked.
• Beware of “goofy” posts from anyone—even Friends. If it looks like something your Friend wouldn’t post, don’t click on it.
• Scammers might hack your Friends’ accounts and send links from their accounts. Beware of enticing links coming from your Friends.

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Facebook Got Improved New Design for its Account Settings

Facebook in the battle with Google plus today(30,July 2011) launched a new designed interface for the Facebook Account Settings to Facebook users. The new design of Facebook Account Settings now looks similar to the Account settings of the Google Plus Account setting (or Google Account settings). The main options of the tab in the previous Facebook Account settings interface will now appear on the left sidebar. In this change no new Account settings feature had been added by the Facebook . Its only the design change by the Facebook, But in future we can expect new features from the Facebook to give a tough competition to its competent Google Plus. Below are some screen shots of Facebook new Account setting interface.

Facebook Account Settings - Tab: General

Facebook Acount Settings- Tab: Security

Facebook Account Settings- Tab: Notifications

Facebook Account Settings- Tab: Applications

Facebook Account Settings- Tab: Mobile

Facebook Account Settings: Tab: Payments

Facebook Account Setting-Tab: Facebook Ads

The new design of the Facebook Account Settings page makes editing and updating of your Facebook account information easier. None of your settings have changed, it just has a new look and feel.

What do you feel about Facebook's Account Setting's new design ? Do comment.

How secure is your password ?

We often use password to secure our information , but it is more important to know How secure is your password?.If your important passwords include your pet’s name, your birth date or other easy to find information about you, you could be in big trouble.Here are some Do's and Dont's that can help you to have a secure pasword.

Do's

• Do use at least eight characters in your password. Remember, the more the merrier.
• Do use a good variety of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
• Do avoid consecutive keyboard combinations— such as qwerty or asdfg.
• Make sure you use different passwords for each of your accounts.
• Be sure no one watches when you enter your password.
• Always log off if you leave your device and anyone is around—it only takes a moment for someone to steal or change the password.
• Use comprehensive security software and keep it up to date to avoid keyloggers (keystroke loggers) and other malware.
• Depending on the sensitivity of the information being protected, you should change your passwords periodically, and avoid reusing a password for at least one year.

Dont's

• Don’t use personal information such as your name, age, birth date, child’s name, pet’s name, or favorite color/song, etc.
• Don’t use dictionary words, slang terms, common misspellings, or words spelled backward.
• Don’t use more than three consecutive characters of one type—5386 is not okay, 238# is okay.
• Don’t tell anyone your password. Your trusted friend now might not be your friend in the future. Keep your passwords safe by keeping them to yourself.
• Avoid entering passwords on computers you don’t control (like computers at an Internet café or library)—they may have malware that steals your passwords.
• Avoid entering passwords when using unsecured Wi-Fi connections (like at the airport or coffee shop)—hackers can intercept your passwords and data over this unsecured connection.

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You may also like to read ''How to increase security of your Facebook account".

How to increase security of your Facebook account

Facebook had always been targeted when it comes to the security of your account on any social networking site.But this time facebook has come up with a feature that the security community was eagerly waiting.Facebook will let the users connect to Facebook using an HTTPS secure web connection ,which offers an extra assurance that they are connecting to website that they intend to reach , while also encrypting the data sent between the PC and Facebook.

This encryption makes it safer for people who log onto Facebook in places that have insecure wireless networks. It’s easy to sniff unencrypted Web traffic on unsecured Wi-Fi networks, so a hacker could start stealing information from people who are logged onto the network.

This will also let the users to protect themselves from the attack of a "Firesheep" ,a firefox plugin which lets anyone log into a victim’s Facebook account. Facebook users will just need to change their security settings to turn on the HTTPS option ,it may not be yet available to all users. But Facebook expects it to gradually become more widespread.

Facebook Account Activity

Under "Account settings" you can also check your "Account activity" which gives you the details of you login locations of your previous logs , if you find any suspicious locations you can 'end activity' it ,thereby protecting your account.

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