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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Protect your Facebook account from hackers

 
Company had previously published information according to number of users and the site uses more than one billion active users around the world. That is one of every seven people around the world access the account at least once a month because Facebook is the largest social network in the world.

A lot of hackers targeting your account and Facebook pages for various reasons, may have access to your personal information, photos, profile, which is for political reasons, which is to harm and hurt no more, no less.

To protect your Facebook accounts, it will be through a two-step verification

So when you login to your account you will not need to enter the password, but it will ask you to enter Facebook secret code in order to complete the login process, this secret code you will receive it as SMS message to your phone every time you enter, or you can get it with Facebook application on your phone, which generates random numbers variable of your own. The application is useful, if your phone does not have coverage which may prevent the message arrives. and after the first identifying your computer as a trusted device so you are not required to enter this code each time, the code will be required in cases of illegal entry by other persons or by you when you try to enter from undefined device.

To activate the two-step verification on your Facebook account follow these steps:

1. log in as usual from your browser, click on the settings icon and choose Account Settings.
 
2. from the left menu, click Security and then click on Login Approvals
 
 
3. Select option " Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers" then Click  Save Changes.

 
 4. You'll see a message telling you how this feature works. Click Get Started.
 
 
5. Click Continue
 
 
 6 - In the next window, select your country and then enter your mobile phone number (without the 0 that commonly found in the beginning of the network code) and then Click Continue.
 
 
 7. Enter the confirmation code that you received then Click Confirm.
 
 
 8. Select the box then Click Close
 
 
Congrats! The feature is now activated on your account. Now even if the hacker stealing your password will not be able to access your account simply because it does not have and cannot get the secret code that will be dialed for each entry. If you log in from another browser or another computer, you will be asked to enter the code, you'll see a Facebook notification that asks if you want to add the new device as a reliable device to request the code each time. You can approve or reject depending on the situation. The code will be requested in case access to the Facebook application on your phone after you delete it and reinstall it or install it on a new phone.

Now what if your phone does not have network coverage in place? This means that the code will not receive the SMS message and solution here is easy and within Facebook application for Smartphones (Android, iPhone, BlackBerry). Simply open the application and click on the settings icon and then choose Code Generator. You'll see the following page for the first time and that ask you to activate the code generator. Press Activate.
 
 
 
Then the application will generate the symbols that you can access them in the same way to enter when needed.
 
 
 
Now your Facebook account have got the full protection.


 

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