. Facebook Phishing
Phishing is one of the most popular ways for
hacking a facebook account. In Phishing, the
hacker creates a fake login page or create a clone
of facebook login page that looks like the real
facebook page. In the next step facebook, hacker
asks the victim to log in through the fake phishing
web page, victim username and password stored
in a hacker computer.
How to Protect yourself from Facebook Phishing
Never login your facebook account on another
computer.
Always avoid emails that ask you to log in
your facebook account in the new tab.
Never open any spammy links that give by
your friend in the message box or by SMS.
Always use Chrome browser, chrome identifies
the phishing page.
Use Antivirus in your computer.
Make sure you are on facebook.com and
double-check the web address.
2. Keylogging
Keylogging is one of the easiest ways to hack a
password of the facebook account. Keylogger is a
small software or program which installed in a
victim computer and this program record
everything which victim type in his computer.
How to Protect yourself from Keyloggers
Install a good antivirus in your computer.
Never open your facebook account on another
computer.
Always download free software from trusted
websites
Never download or get a software from
untrusted sources.
Always scan a pen drive for virus
3. View Saved Password from Browser
Like you know whenever we login new account in
our browser, the browser asks to save this
username and password in the computer. Anyone
can hack your facebook account from view your
facebook password in your browser.
Just go this URL and you see username and
password in your chrome browser.
chrome://settings/passwords
How to Protect yourself from this Hack
Never save your login password in your web
browser.
Secure your chrome browser with the
password.
Always use the strong password in your
Computer.
4. Mobile Phone Hacking
Generally, we reset our facebook password from
our mobile phone. What if someone install monitor
apps in our phone. With monitor apps, hackers
can access and read your all sms and he can
easily reset your facebook password in just
seconds.
How to Protect yourself from Facebook Mobile
Phone Hacking
Always install a good antivirus in your mobile
phone.
Never install unknown apps in your phone.
Always check your phone for suspicous apps
5. Social Engineering
Social Engineering is simple attack made by
hacker, in this method hacker can collect
information about victim as much as he can from
various methods. If victim uses simple password
like his birthday date, mobile number, school
name, girlfriend name and bike number , a good
hacker can easily guess your password and hack
your facebook account.
How to Protect Yourself from Social Engineering
Attack
Never use any simple password in your
facebook account.
Never ever write you facebook account in any
paper.
Many people use the same password in
different websites, my advice is never to use
same password for many websites.
Make strong password from this
website Random Password Generator
6. From Hacking your Email Account
Mainly the first hacker hacks your email account
then hack your facebook account from password
resetting.
How to Protect yourself from Email Hacking
Enable 2 Step authentication in your email
account. When you enable this security in
your Gmail account, no one accesses your
Gmail account without your mobile OTP.
Use strong password in your email.
7. Source Code
At facebook website login pages, you can view
masked passwords (******)by changing the
password input type as text from inspect element
in your browser. This method works in all modern
browser. Never leave your PC on with signup
page. Anyone can know your facebook password
from this method.
Save yourself from this Attack
Never save your facebook password in your
web browser.
8. Tabnapping
Nowdays you can see ,you can signup and make
your id on any website from your facebook
account. Many websites are create a fake login
page and asks you to enter your facebook
username and password. In this hack a hacker
creates a fake website and asks user to sign up
from you facebook account.
How to Protect yourself from Tabnapping
Avoid signup from facebok account, always
use trusted websites.
Avoid spyware and freeware software.
Never play free games on untrusted websites.
9. Simple Logout Scenario
Many users never logout facebook id from the
computer. Anyone can access your facebook
account when you leave your computer. This is
the last advice always logout our facebook account
when you leave your computer alone.
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