7 Tips to Protect your Social Profiles from Being Hacked

Introduction to Social Networking Profiles Hacking

People are sharing,Chatting, writing almost about everything and anything happening in their life which is somewhere meant to be as a Secret. People rely on Facebook thinking like “Why Should I care About what I am sharing when Facebook is Such a Big Company and Hence they will Provide the Security!!” You are absolutely wrong. Facebook can Provide security to their Servers not to your Workstations. Hence most of the Hackers try to Hack Your Machines as it is almost Impossible to Hack into the Servers of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN etc. In order protect your Social Profiles from being hacked you need to Take some Security Measures.

Protect Social Profiles From Being Hacked

To know the Precautions you must Know what you are protecting and against What? You should read the Following articles How Hackers Attack you Social Profiles.

Now when you have read all these articles you have came to know about how hackers actually Make their attacks and look like Genuine People.

1) Install a Internet Security System along with Spyware and Adware

Installing a Good Internet Security System does your Half of the Important Work. It disallows Malicious URL’s,Network attacks etc. Installing Spyware is another Important step as most of the attacks are carried out with them. Updating them regularly is another Important step.

2) Install Anti-Loggers

Installing Anti Loggers will give you freedom against all remotely Installed Keyloggers on your Machine. It will disallow all the Remote Installations of Loggers and hence will help you from Being Hacked.

3) Do Not Click Unknown Links

Clicking Unkown Links while you are logged in to your Social profiles can get your Social profiles get hacked. So generally avoid clicking into unknown Links.

4) Do not Connect With Unknown Peoples especially on Facebook

Some people have a very bad habit of adding Unknown peoples just for the sake of Increasing Friends Count. Remember this can be dangerous. Hackers try a trick where they create 5 fake Facebook ID’s and then send you the requests from all of them. You might add them watching their cute or beauty full pics and add them. But when you do they can use these accounts to prove that your Account is hacked and send your password reset link to another E-Mail id than you provided to the Facebook. So it is better to avoid adding Unknown Friends.

5) Add Multiple E-Mail ID’s to your Account.

If your Particulat E-Mail ID is hacked then it might be difficult to recover the account. But then multiple E-Mail ID’s are added it becomes easy to recover the account as well as it gives additional security.

6) Add Mobile Number

Facebook and Twitter provides merging your Mobile Number to social profiles in order to Provide Authentication and password recovery options. Use these methods and remember to hide them from your Friends and Public.

7) Disable Remote Desktop Connection on Your Computer

Hackers use RDC to attack on victims machine which proves to be a great Headache. Always make sure that it is disabled.