Tips To Protect Your Facebook Account From Hacking | Steps To Secure Your Facebook Account | Prevent Stealing Of Your Facebook Account Password

I heard many of my friend's facebook account got hacked and they were unable to recover their account. So i decided to post some of the tips to protect your facebook account from hacking.
Hacking a facebook account becomes easy now a days , any person without any technical knowledge can hack your account.
How hackers can hack your facebook account?

• Phishing

         Phishing is a old technique to steal account password through fake page created.  Any one can do this by creating phishing page. Now a days no need to create any phishing page, many websites are providing phishing page for facebook, gmail, ymail, etc..  By uploading those pages to any hosting sites and giving the link to the victim, hacker can steal the password.

• Stealing Cookies

          Stealing cookies is technique where your browser session cookies can be stolen by a javascript, those Cookies can be decrypted to get the Md5 hash of your password. And also they can fetch the cookies to browser to get access to your account. Md5 hash cannot be decrypted to get the exact password, because Md5 technique is a one way hashing (can only be encrypted). But there are huge collection of Md5 decrypted hash are found in some of the websites.

• Key Logging

          Key logging is technique where key strokes of a computer can be recorded with a help of a software. Using the recorded key strokes the password can be stolen. In this technique the hacker should ask the victim to login to their account using his/her computer for stealing the email address as well as the password

• Remote Key Logging

          Here the key logger is installed on any computer over internet. Sending a link to the victim's computer, a hidden program will run the key logger process when the victim clicks the link by downloading without the permission of the victim .
Here are the steps to secure your facebook account

#1 Protection from Phishing

1. Don't click any link given in chat or messages or spam emails.

1. Phishing page can be identified by means of the web address and also by the secure connection. 

1. Make sure the https is enabled while entering your password.

1. If you found any phishing page, just report it here

#2 Protection from cookies stealing

1. Don't click any link given in chat or messages or spam emails. 

1. Make sure that you don't mark the Remember Me check box while logging. Because even if your cookies got stolen, the cookies will expire after certain time so the hacker will be unable to login after the expiry. 

1. Even if you come to know that your cookies got stolen, just logout your account and then login to your account and change the password immediately to secure your account.

#3 Protection from  Key Logging

1. Best to protect from key logging is OnScreenKeyboard.

1. I'm not telling you to use OnScreenKeyboard on your personal PC. Use OnScreenKeyboard in public computers such as work station pc, net cafe etc... Go to Run-->osk.exe to use OnScreenKeyboard. 

#4 Protection from Remote access

1. Don't click any link given in chat or messages or spam emails. 

1. Use a antivirus program to deny the key loggers and any viral program spread through internet