Hacking a FB Account!

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Re: Hacking a FB Account!

@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.

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@Lilly

Someone tried to hack my fb account last week that was quite shocking to me. 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.

how you came to know that someone tried to hack your FB?

@Rayan

Kaspersky is certainly one of the best, but i would recommend ESET Smart Security/ESET NOD32 Anti virus for home users. Do not install more than one anti virus, ever, dont even think about it, this is will not add more security, it will break your system.

P.S: I dont work for ESET

I sometimes run ESET online scan. Use Avast!!

@TofiBaba

If anyone is paranoid about losing control of their accounts, gmail or facebook etc, try and find setting for “2 factor authentication”.
For my Facebook account I have it turned on, so whenever I access FB on a new machine it sends me a code to my phone without which I can’t get in. Same thing with all my gmail and dropbox etc.

How can it be done??