As you know many people are Hiring hackers to hack your Facebook account as they can spy on your facebook account so today lets talk about Facebook Hacks, Scams and Security. There are hundreds of people working full time for your Facebook account security and Facebook is one of the most secure social networking site but still some people's account get hacked. In this post i will tell you how to secure your facebook account and what are the attacks mainly used to hack your facebook account.
Security in a serious way
How Hackers Hack your Facebook Account?
Phishing
It is a attack to acquire sensitive information from user such as usernames, passwords, credit card details and other information too. In Phishing a Hacker creates a fake website which looks similar to legit website. Phishing is mostly carried out my email spoofing or instant messaging and it often direct user to enter information. Phishing is the continual threat to cyber world which is growing day by day. Most of the social networking accounts are hacked with phishing attack.
Keylogger
Keylogger is nothing but keystroke logging. In this attack a hacker creates a small software and send you the link of the software or the software directly. The software can be named anything and the icons can be changed so as soon as you try to open the software it gives you an error but actually it is already installed in your PC. And It daily sends the logs of your keystroke to the Hacker. So avoid click or download any software which you are suspicious off.
USB Hacking
USB Hacking is also known as Pendrive Hacking. A hacker can hack your facebook account or any other account if he has physical access to your computer. In this attack a hacker installs some recovering software in his pendrive and also paste a program in his pendrive, which will automatically start scanning your computer as soon as the pendrive is inserted in your PC. It is actually not scanning but recovering the emails and passwords from your Browsers.
Man in the middle attack
In this attack a Hacker can hack you if you and the hacker are on the same LAN on a switch based network. In the attack a Hacker place himself in between the client and the server and captures all information or He can also act as a default gateway.
Session Hijacking
Session Hijacking is a very dangerous attack if you are using your facebook in http connection. In this attack a Hacker steals your browser cookies which is used to authenticate the user to other website and use it to gain access to victims account. Session Hijacking is mostly used on LAN or wifi connections.
DNS spoofing attack
If you and hacker are on the same network then the hacker can use this attack and change your original facebook to a fake phishing facebook page and can steal your Email id and password. And can get access to your facebook account.
These are the Most used attacks which a Hacker can use to attack your Facebook account.
How to Secure your Account?
- Make sure you don't click on any link which your not sure of or which is suspicious to you.
- Don't allow third party apps to use your data and don't use them.
- Make sure you add a Secondary email Id to your Facebook account.
- Update your Privacy settings.
- Keep changing your Facebook password
- Make sure your Facebook password contains capital letter, small letter and numbers.
- Before you login to your Facebook account make sure to check the Facebook link.
- Make sure you have linked your mobile number to your facebook account.
- Make sure you have turned your mobile notification on.
- Make sure you have Anti-virus and Anti-spyware turned on in your Computer.
Related Post
In this post I've discussed about facebook account security and my previous post How to identify facebook fake account is also related to this post as the hacker can also create facebook fake profile and try to send you link and hack you so before that identify if the profile is real or fake so do read this post too.
Conclusion :- In this post I've tried to discuss most of the attack which are used by hackers to hack your facebook account. If you have any problem or question regarding to this post please do write us or comment below
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