How To Protect Your Facebook Account From Hacking

Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms that is massively used by people who want to reach out to friends and family. These platforms allow people to interact with each other by creating posts including images and messages.  Facebook can also be used as a platform to chat with each other from the comfort of one’s homes.

Over Facebook people usually tend to divulge their details and their present life status.  These days Facebook is also used as a platform for the sale and purchase of products. Though people make sure that they secure their Facebook account with user id and password, tracking Facebook password has become very easy using certain tools and software that are readily available in the market.

Here I shall mention a few ways by which hackers can hack Facebook account.  You need to know all these methods to safeguard your account from hacking.

• Phishing

This is one of the most common methods of hacking.  In this technique, people fall prey to a phishing attack by clicking on URLs or links that are illegally set up by the hackers. The layout and appearance often are very convincing and that is why people easily tend to believe in them.

Since the phishing site is a duplicate representation of a trustworthy site,  users login to the duplicate site using their genuine credentials.  These credentials are noted by the hackers and used for hacking. 

• Password grabbing

Password grabbing can be used if a user has the same login and password for multiple sites.  If that is your trend of creating login and password you better change it.  The credentials that you are using on one site can be used to test and crack the codes for other sites as well.  If you are using the same credentials for all the sites then it becomes even easier for the hacker to crack open your password.

• Keylogger

A keylogger is a spying tool that is used to hack user credentials by tapping the keystrokes. Once it is installed in any of the target devices it will work in a stealth mode and will extract all the activities on the target device.  It records all the keystrokes the user enters and interprets them to figure out the password. 

• Facebook account hacker software

 Some software is available through which accounts on social media platforms can be easily hacked. This software provides users with high-quality spying features. 

How to safeguard your account from hackers

The best way to safeguard your account from hackers is not to trust any unreliable website.  Do not click on any link that looks suspicious but offers extraordinary deals.  The best way to do this is to hover over the links and check out the correctness of the words used in the link.  Often hackers play with words to make the links look genuine.  Even if you receive emails with attachments in them do not click on any attachment that looks suspicious. 

A little alertness from your side can go a long way in safeguarding your accounts and their credentials.