Monday, April 23, 2012

How to Secure your Facebook Account from Hackers: Its Easy Way


  • Login into your Facebook Account and go to Account Setting.
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  • Choose Security tab from left window pane.
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Method 1: Enable Secure Browsing

  • In your Security Settings click on Secure Browsing tab.
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  • Do check mark on the Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) when possible Checkbox and then click on save changes button.
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Method 2: Login Notification:

By enabling login notifications you will receive alerts whenever your Facebook account is opened from an unknown device.You can associate your computer or mobile with your Facebook account.If your account is opened from another device you will receive an email with information about the location of the device.This should be enough to trigger suspicions that your account has been compromised.

Steps to Follow:

  • Click on the Login Notification in Security Setting.
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  • Do check mark on Email button and then on save changes button.
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  • Now when anyone try to access your computer then you will get a email 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.

How To Remove Recognized Devices?

Steps to Follow:

  • Click on the Recognized Device in Security Setting.
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  • Here you will see a list of all the devices that you had made to Save Device.
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  • Remove that particular device from your list and then click on the save changes button.

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