how to protect your social media accounts from hackers:-
The Internet and all its social media sites such as facebook, twitter and others have become an essential part of our daily life as we share our thoughts and lives with the community and we publish our own pictures and videos to share on the internet as well as we also share some of our personal information on the communication sites and all of this is preserved On your accounts on the Internet, which makes hacking or spying on these accounts may lead to serious consequences and many problems due to the occurrence of these data and information in the hands of the person who broke into your account and can control it.
Therefore in this matter we will provide some tips that you must follow to protect your online accounts from being hacked: -
1- Connect to Wi-Fi networks that you do not own
One day, some of us connect to the Internet through public Wi-Fi networks, such as cafes networks and public places, and this is a very dangerous thing, as some tools can be used by a person who is connected to you in the same network to decrypt between you and the internet networks and get all your data and passwords for accounts simply .
Therefore, you do not connect to any Wi-Fi network that you do not own except by using vpn programs to access the full encryption of your data and protect your data while connecting to unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
2- Unencrypted sites are fully encrypted
You must make sure of the encryption and the ability to protect your data in any website on the Internet before you deal with it or send or receive any personal data such as (account passwords) or even log in within these sites.
How do you know that the site encrypts your data or not?
The method is very simple through the site link
Full encryption sites carry at the beginning of the link the https protocol
As for the unsafe sites, they carry at the beginning of their links the http protocol
As in the pictures.
Https security site
Unsafe site http
3- The passwords of your accounts
One of the most common reasons for hacking accounts easily is not securing your accounts with a good password. Some users create very weak passwords on their accounts and it is easy to guess them easily (such as (serial numbers)) and others.
But in order to protect your account well, you must make the password strong and difficult to guess.
Tips for choosing a strong password: -
- 1- It does not contain your name, phone number, car number, or the name of a family member
- 2- It does not contain serial numbers like 123456
- 3- It should contain numbers, symbols and letters
- 4- It should contain CABTAl and small letters
4- Securing your accounts in two steps
Some accounts like facbook and google account allow you to service two-step verification while logging in to a new device, as it is not enough to know the username and password, but the company will also send a code to your mobile phone linked to the account, you must enter the correct code to complete the login process.
So you have to secure your accounts well by activating the two-step verification feature from your Facebook and Google account settings to prevent your accounts from being hacked easily.
5- Mobile phone numbers assigned for recovery accounts
If you forget the password for your accounts on Facebook and Google, you can log in to your account by sending the company a specific code to the phone number registered within the recovery account, but you need to pay attention. After the people who are professionals in the Hacking field, if they want to penetrate your account, they replace their SIM card with the private phone number. You through one of the branches of the approved or unauthorized telecommunications company. In this case, if the company sends any confirmation code to the phone, the message will reach the hacker as if he owns your phone exactly and can easily access your Google and Facebook account because all identity confirmation messages will reach him.
Therefore, you must put a special phone number that they only know inside of your accounts because if someone knows the phone number designated for recovering the account then your account will be in danger.
6- Phantom login pages
Sometimes some programmers design pages on the Internet that are 100% similar to log in to Facebook accounts and Google Accounts and in this way they deceive users as the user types the password and account name and he believes that he logs on to the official website but the truth is fake pages that send your account information to the owner That fake page.
How do you know the official page of the site from fake pages?
It is simple via the link on the site.
For example if you want to log into Facebook
First, before writing your password, make sure that the page link converts at the beginning of it on the m.facebook. If not, know that it is a fake page.
This is the link for the official Facebook login site
These tips, if you follow all of them, will make your online accounts completely safe
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