Lilly
September 15, 2012, 7:37pm
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Re: Hacking a FB Account!
Someone tried to hack my fb account last week that was quite shocking to me.
Rayan:
There is so much misconception about hacking here that am thinking about starting a separate thread for it, if anyone needs more details i will put it in a separate thread, in brief,
Its not easy to hack anyone’s FB (or any other online account for that matter) unless you use a simple password or security questions/answers and you dont use the same password for more than one service. The possible ways to hack are
1). Social Engineering: The hacker stalks you and use his social engineering skills to guess your passwords. - Always use a strong and unique password for your accounts.
2). Phishing: The hacker creates/clones the login page of the service in question (FB. Gmail etc) and sends you a link or direct you to sign into your account. - Check your address bar and make sure that you are really on the website that you are suppose to type your email/password and its an encrypted connection.
3). Keylogers: The hacker plants a keyloger on your computer through PDF attachments/flash vulnerability or drive by web exploits and stores and sends all the words you type on your keyboard. - Use a good anti virus and always update the virus database signature, try to use a free or paid firewall if you know how to use it. Most of these are easily detected and removed by a good anti virus software. If the keyloger is a custom made just for you, and or you are the victim of a targeted attack, sorry, there is nothing you can do.
4). Trojans/Virus/Worms/Fake Anti virus: Normally these thinks are easily detected and removed by a good anti virus.
5). The service’s database is compromised: This is almost impossible to happen in case of large services like FB and Gmail but its possible and it happened in case of small companies (even Yahoo). If you use the same password (or one that related) on more than one service, if one account is compromised all your other accounts are compromised as well. - If it is compromised, change your password immediately.
P.S: I work in IT Security Industry .
Next thing,I am going to learn in IT.
Kaspersky is the best one, It has been 2 years since I am with them , got it for £27 and it covers 3 devices , I gave to my sisters and I got on mine,renewed it this year and no headache of virus anymore. No, an Anti virus doesn’t make your system slow but having more than one Anti viruses do effect your system’s performance.
Tried to find out and someone from London on Vodaphone tried to hack it, I don’t know who did,just changed my password and login id.