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Ifyou’ve been using Facebook for a few years, then
you know your account contains a authentic treasure of information that thieves would just love to mine. Securing your Facebook account is going to go a long way towards protecting you from exposing a big piece of your personal life to unpleasant elements. Choose a Strong Password Let’sstart with one of the most important things: choosing a strong password. Your password is the first and often best security mechanism for keeping invaders, so take care here. Make sure it is long (12 to 14 characters or longer), a mix of characters, and contains no personal information, since those can be easily can be socially engineered. Let’s change your password to something more secure. Accessed using a web browser by clicking the little arrow in the upper right corner and choosing “Settings” from the drop-down menu, so do that now. When using Mobile Phone: In the mobile app, tap the “More” button in the lower-right corner, then scroll to and tap on “Settings”. From the resulting pop up, choose “Account Settings”. Change your Facebook password You can change your Facebook password from the Password section in the Privacy settings. Use your password generator and password manager to store the password in a safe place, and you’re good to go. Use Login Approvals The principle behind it is simple: You sign in with something you know (your password), and something you have—which is usually your phone. After entering your password, Facebook will send a code to your phone that you type in on the site, to confirm that you are who you say you are. That way, if someone found out your password, they still wouldn’t be able to log in without also having your phone. You can get this code as a text message, or through an authentication app on your phone like Google Authenticator. This feature—again, called “Login Approvals” on Facebook—can be enabled from Settings > Security > Login Approvals. Check the box next to “Require a login code to access my account from unknown browsers”. STEP : Approval Code Nexttime you log in, you’ll be prompted for your approval code, which should be sent to your phone. After entering your code, you will be asked if you want to store that browser so you don’t have to enter an approval code next time you log into Facebook using that browser. STEP 5: Enable Login Alerts and See Who’s Logged Into Your Account
LoginAlerts are one such tool. You’ll find them
under Settings > Security > Login Alerts. You can either choose to get a notification on Facebook, over email, or as a text message. The next time anyone logs in from an unrecognized device or browser, you’ll be notified. This is also another way to see what machines are logged into your Facebook account. If there are any you don’t recognize, you can log them out remotely. Head to Settings > Security > Where You’re Logged In, and click “End Activity” for any unfamiliar devices or locations. If you don’t want to go through and review every session on the list, click “End All Activity” to log out from all devices on the list. You don’t need to save any changes with this step, once you end activity for a session, it’s done. STEP 6: Audit the Apps that Have Permission to Access Your Facebook Account Other apps can have access to your Facebook account, too. Head to Settings > Apps and take some time to remove anything that looks suspicious or you no longer use. To remove an app, just hover over it and click the “X” on the right-hand side. Alternatively, you can click the “Edit” button (right next to the Remove button) to change what information you provide to an app.
STEP 7: Edit At the bottom of the Apps Settings screen, you can change settings for a number of different items.