Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Facebook Login Security Tips


With over 300 million users and hundreds of thousands of people joining Facebook every day has become one of the most popular sites on the web, and second only to Google, the Web search powerhouse with so many users of this site has become a primary goal for hackers and malicious individuals to seek access to personal information in order to take over the accounts of other people.

As you well know, many of us have sensitive information on our computers, from tax and credit card information to the e-mail address and password you use to access websites with social networking. If you think you have compromised your Facebook email and password is not that big of a deal just think what would happen if someone got a hold of your account information and started insulting all of your friends or worse, sending material Inappropriate use your name. Can you imagine the face and the reaction of your family and colleagues after he saw something inappropriate being posted from your account? It goes without saying that most people reputations would be ruined after one thing.

In order to prevent your Facebook account information is compromised for you is important to keep in mind the following:

Use a strong password

Many Internet security company have published interesting pieces regarding how common passwords most people really are, some people use a sequence of numbers 1 to 9, while others simply use the word "password" as password. The problem here is that the use of such information becomes a model that can be exploited by malicious people to gain access to your Facebook account to use a password that combines both numbers and alphanumeric characters is of utmost importance.

Use a password manager

If you use Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or any other browser than it is useful to know that each of these tools provide a password manager that is just a simple utility that you can use to store passwords and login information. However, not many people feel completely safe storing all this information within a browser, because as we all know that crashes happen in order to avoid loss of data, the best approach is to use a program like "last step" , which runs on both Windows and Mac or "Roboform" for Windows users only.

Both these programs will allow you to choose whether to install a simple add-on in your browser, or run both an add-on with the USB key that is where all information will be stored. Both these programs offered the option of backing up data on the server of the service providers were only you have access to all information of backups if you ever need it.

Learn to recognize phishing scams

It 's very unlikely for Facebook to contact you by e-mail requesting personal information, if you ever came across e-mail, make sure you move the mouse over the link to see if the domain name is actually legitimate and even if is not only because they fall for many links and email addresses can be forged today.

A smart idea that is used to steal other people's information is to send e-mail spam to a broad base of people asking them if they do not want to know if their personal data has been compromised on the web. Since most people are curious by nature, they click through and land on a page that asks them to input their credit card or account information in order to determine whether the input information has been previously stolen, but guess a little? Putting the information on these sites and trying to see if your information has been compromised in reality you are breaking your data! So, think twice before clicking on any e-mail link and begin filling in forms .......

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