How To Secure Your Email And Facebook Accounts To Avoid Hackers

 In recent years, the rate at which people lose their Facebook Accounts increased geometrically and it's still increasing.

Google and Yahoo have also lamented at the rate people complain of losing their accounts to Hackers.

Facebook recorded a total number of 580,000 lost accounts to Hackers same with Google and Yahoo email accounts.

In this article I will be teaching you how to secure your email and Facebook accounts so that hackers won't be able to hack your account. If you are new here please subscribe to get email notifications of future interesting updates.

There are only two parties who know or have access to your Facebook or email accounts, the first is you and second is Facebook or the email company (Google or Yahoo).

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc can never reveal your details to hackers or aide them in hacking your accounts. The only time they can reveal your details to third party is when there is a Court or police order to do so. So it means that we contribute 90% to hackers unknowingly or knowingly. Left alone to hackers they will not be able to hack your account but we mistakenly give them some of the details.

How to secure your email and Facebook accounts to avoid Hackers

By default, Facebook and Gmail have already implemented some measures to checkmate the activities of Hackers. Such measures are:

1. IP address identification: This is a set of keys that are identified when you sign up on Facebook or email. With your IP address, they can tell when someone else is trying to login with a different IP address that's not yours. With your IP address, they can be able to see your location. If you are in Nigeria and someone in USA tries to login to your account, there is every possibility that such login will be prevented.

2. Device identification: email and Facebook notifies you when someone is trying to login with another device. It doesn't matter if it's you or another person. If you normally login with Android phone, then you try to login with iPhone or computer, Facebook or email will suspect that it might not be you so they will first contact you to verify if it's you.

The two above are the most effective ways Facebook and email uses to Protect their users from Hackers. The options above are mostly set by default which means you don't have to do anything to set it up because it's already set. To make sure it's implemented, go to your Facebook security or email security and enable 'notify me' when someone signs in from different location and different device. 

You can see the this option by going to 

-Accounts settings on Facebook,

- Security settings

How to protect your email and Facebook accounts from Hackers 2.

In above I shared what websites do to protect you now I am going to share what you must do to protect yourself from Hackers.

1. Stop logging in using other people's devices: This is the common mistake most people make. They usually login to email in cyber centers, computer centers or using another person's phone or computer. The worst is that after logging in they forget to log out and never to save password.

One other day I visited a computer centers, I saw hundreds of email accounts logged in in their computer, perhaps this people came to register for jamb or another thing that requires email sign-in. 

If you must login with other's devices, please don't click on save password. In fact logout after you have finished whatever you are doing and confirm that your password isn't saved into the computer browsers. Just try to login again and see if it asks for password. If it logs in without demanding for another password then it means your password was saved. Logout and remove your account from the computer.

2. Enable two factor authentication: This means to get a pin sent to your email or phone which you will be required before you login. To set up two factor authentication for Gmail or Facebook,

- to go settings security

-two factor authentication

- add either phone number or email where you wish to get the login code.

With this, even if hackers have your username and password they will still need the two factor authentication code to login.

3. Avoid using people's phone to login to Facebook: 95% of hacked Facebook accounts were done using this method. Most times we trust our friends and colleagues and we borrow their phone to login to Facebook either because we are out of data or our phones are not available at the moment.

One person can use 10 different Facebook accounts on one Facebook app.

When you login with their phone and forget to logout and remove your accounts, they will login later to your account.

If they login to your Facebook accounts it won't be hacked. They hack your account by removing your phone number or email accounts you used in opening those accounts and replace with their own phone number. 

They will also change your password so you won't login again.

4. Don't fall victim to phishing sites: these are sites that clone the original email and Facebook website so you will be deceived to put your email username or Facebook with password. Once you put the details they will be sent to the admin or site owner.

To protect yourself from phishing websites, make sure you see https at the beginning of any  website address before logging in. Make sure you sign in only on the official website address of Facebook or the email.

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