Facebook Security Changes

 Facebook Security Changes


Facebook is one of the famous and biggest social networking website across the Internet, it provides a lot of different features to protect your account from hacking attacks, millions of people are using Facebook for different purposes like to grow their business or to make friends etc.

Facebook Security

Security is always a point of consideration for social networking websites and for webmaster, the main aim of this article is not to introduce some security and privacy tips, as title shows that we are going to talk about some advance security features that are available on your Facebook account.

Protection From Sniffing 

Sniffing is one of the famous and common hacking in which an attacker can sniff your information while your information travel through the wire (for wired network) or through air (for wireless network), Facebook provides an exclusive feature of encryption means your Facebook first encrypt the information (your ID and password) than transfer it to the server.

To activate this feature go to your account setting-->Account security--> Check on secure browsing (HTTPS). After all your browser turn http into https that is a secure channel to transfer information.

Attach Cell Phone To Your Facebook Account
This is one of the most important feature to protect your account to being hacked, let suppose an attacker stole your ID and password of Facebook, than the attacker try to log in from your account from an unknown computer, Facebook block this log in even if the password and ID is correct, Facebook block this log in because of an unknown computer try to log in your account than Facebook will send a message into your number to verify this log in.

This all happen when you turn on this feature, go to your account setting-->account security--> mark check on log in approvals.


Some Other Tips  


Well the most important tips to secure your account has been discussed above, but it is not enough because you have to secure account from an attack like information gathering, hacker uses different social engineering techniques to get into your account, to get more and more information about yourself and your surrounding persons like friends, relatives and others.

Why an attacker do this things? The answer is depend on multiple factors for example this type of information gathering relate to your job and occupation, this may be related to your research on a specific field and many more reason. So you must consider all this thing as a security measures,

Use a strong privacy policy
Do not add an unknown person into your friend list
Limit yourself to share the personal information on Facebook
Do not share your unique creation (May be a research, tool, etc)

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20 Facebook Tips and Tricks You Might Not Know

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

1. How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

   If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

1. How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

   FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.
   
   

2. How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

   Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
   
   

3. How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook

   hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.
   
   

4. How to Schedule Facebook Messages

   Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.
   
   

5. How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

   A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
   
   

6. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends

   Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
   
   

7. How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You

   This service has been discontinued. X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.
   
   

8. How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page

   A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"
   
   

9. How to Remove Facebook Advertisements

   This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.
   
   

10. How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

    OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
    
    

11. How to Display Facebook Statuses on WordPress Blog

    The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs.
    
    

12. How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically

    Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.
    
    

13. How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop

    Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.
    
    

14. How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily

    LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.
    
    

15. How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

    Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.
    
    

16. How to Get Facebook Updates on Email

    NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.
    
    

17. How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox

    FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.
    
    

18. How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop

    Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.
    
    

19. How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile

    A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
    
    

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Create Photo Collage/Grid-View Of Your Facebook Friends

Here’s a small little trick in Facebook that allows you to create a grid view or photo collage out of your friends list. This is how I do it:

1. Click on Friends tab.
2. Proceed to More tab.
3. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—"
   

Photos of all your friends will be displayed, each in 50×50 pixels forming a grid view. Have fun.

Update: It no longer works on new interface of Facebook

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How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

Facebook Chat is cool, at least it allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However I’m not really a fan of the chat bar being at the bottom of the page, what if I’ve left Facebook but still wants to remain chatting with my Facebook contacts? If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

Step 1

Look for Bookmarks on the top navigation. Select Organize Bookmarks…

Step 2

Click New Bookmark... tab and enter the following:

• Name: Facebook Chat
• Location: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
• Check Load this bookmark in sidebar.

Step 3

Launch the Firefox sidebar, click Facebook Chat and start chatting with your Facebook contacts within Firefox.

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How to Create A Welcome Page And Tabs for For Facebook Fanpage

Creating a custom landing page for your Facebook group is not as difficult as you might think!

Here is how you do it:
1. Log in to your Facebook account and do a Search for TAB Press (Static FBML boxes no longer work!)
2. Click on the link "Add to My Page" & Select the page. (this is found in the bottom left hand side of the page)


 
Now you will need to create the content for your Tabs/Welcome screen

1. Use Photo-shop or a similar application to create an image with width of 520px (the height does not matter)
2. Create a folder name FB on your server & upload the image in that folder. You can also use photobucket or an online file hosting service (you will just need a URL for your image)
3. Navigate to your fan page & click on the "Edit Page" tab below the Fan Page's Profile Image.
4. Locate your Tab application & click on Edit.
5. You can create a page for your fans and one for your "non-fans"

If you want to add a link to the image just add the following code

src ="http://yourwebsite.com/FB/imagename.jpg">

If you would like you can also use text after the image with HTML tags like h1, h2,, etc or use any other HTML you like.

6. When you are done click on save changes - navigate to your Fan Page and you will see a new tab with the title you wrote.

Now you can set your new page as the default landing page -- click on the edit page tab and locate "wall settings" -- set your default landing page to the new page you created.

Take a look at what companies like "Pizza Hut" and "Coke" are doing on their pages!

You can also get into more depth than just an image --- If you have some programming know how you can build out a miniature website within your FBML box. You can even use Dreamweaver to build out your page and then copy the code into your Facebook FBML box

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How to Hack a Facebook Password

Wondering to know how to hack a Facebook password? Well, before you can do that, it is very much necessary to understand the real ways of hacking that actually work and also those that are simply scam and do not work. So, in this post we’ll look at some of the possible ways to hack Facebook password!

Every day I get a lot of emails from people requesting me to hack Facebook passwords of their spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend so as to reveal their secret relationships (if any). Most of them are even willing to pay for the service.

However, I strongly deny any such requests since I do not provide any paid hacking service. But anyhow, I have decided to write down this post so that you can learn the tricks for yourself and implement everything at your own risk.

Big Online Companies are Increasing their security day by day

 

Possible Ways to Hack a Facebook Password:

With my experience of over 9 years in the field of ethical hacking and IT security, all I can tell you is that there are only two ways to successfully hack a Facebook password.

 

1. Keylogging – The Easiest Way!

Keylogging refers to simply recording each and every keystroke that is  typed on a specific computer’s keyboard. This is possible with the use of a small computer program called keylogger (also known as spy software). Once installed, this program will automatically load from the start-up, runs in the invisible mode and start capturing each and every keystroke that was typed on the computer.

Some keyloggers with advanced features can also capture screenshots and monitor every activity of the computer. One doesn’t need to have any special knowledge in order to install and use a keylogger. That means, anyone with a basic knowledge of computer can install and use this software with ease.

2. Phishing – The Difficult Way

The other common way to hack passwords or online accounts is via Phishing. This is the most widely used technique by many hackers to gain access to Facebook and other social networking websites. This method will make use of a fake login page (often called as spoofed web page) which will exactly resemble the original one. Say for example, a spoofed web page of Facebook looks exactly same as that of the original page. This page is actually created by the hacker and is hosted on his own server. Once the victim enters his/her password in such a fake login page, the login details are stolen away by the hacker.

Most Internet users would easily fall prey to such online phishing scams. Thus, phishing scams trick users in such a way that, they themselves give away their passwords. But phishing requires specialized knowledge and high level skills to implement. Therefore, it would not be possible for a noob user (perhaps like you) to attempt this trick. It is a punishable offense too. So, I would recommend that you stay away from phishing and make use of the keyloggers since it is the easiest and safest way to gain access to any online account.

 

Facebook Hacking Methods that Do Not Work!

Today, there are hundreds of scam websites out there that are waiting to rip off your pockets by making false promises. These websites claim to be the experts in the field of hacking and boast to instantly obtain any password for you. Most people fall victim to these websites and lose their hard earned money. The idea behind this post is to expose the truth behind hacking the Facebook (or any online account) so that, you can learn things for yourself and at the same time stay away from all those scam websites. The following are some of the hacking methods that actually do not work:

1. Many scam websites claim to exploit a certain vulnerability of Facebook website as a means to crack the password. Unfortunately, there is no such vulnerability in Facebook (or any other online account) that can be exploited to crack the password. I advise you to stay away from such scam websites.
2. There is no ready-made software program that is available to hack Facebook password except the keylogger (spy software). In fact, keyloggers are pretty generic and meant to record the keystrokes of a computer which obviously includes the password also. Keep in mind that apart from the keylogger, there is no such program that is specifically designed to gain access to Facebook account. Stay away from any website that claim to sell such program.
3. Beware! On many websites and Internet forums, you will often see fake articles about Facebook hacking. Most of them will tell you something like this: “you need to send an email to passwordretrieve@facebook.com (or similar) along with your username and password“. Never give away your password to anyone nor send it to any email address. If you do so, you will lose your password itself in attempt to hack somebody else’s password.
    

I hope this post will help you avoid scams and choose the right approach to accomplish your goal.

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Access Your Facebook Account with 3 Passwords

Did you know that you can login to your Facebook account using 3 different passwords? Seems interesting isn’t it? Yep! Unlike any other online account which has only one password to access, Facebook lets you log in using 3 different variants of your password.

Only a few Facebook users are aware of this fact, but for many others, this might seem a bit surprising. Facebook accepts the following forms of your password

Access Facebook Pass in 3 Ways

1. Your Original Password

Let me explain this to you with the following example. Assume that your default Facebook password that you created during the sign-up process is:

2. Password with the Case Toggled

In the above password the letters ‘F’ and ‘P’ are in uppercase and the remaining are in the lowercase. If you TOGGLE the case where all the UPPERCASE characters are converted into the lowercase and vice versa, your default password “myFacebookPass” would become:

Now if you log in using the above toggled password, your Facebook will accept it and welcomes you! This is the first variation of your default password which is accepted by Facebook.

3. Password with the First Letter Capitalized

If the first character of your password is in the lowercase, you may just change that first letter to UPPERCASE and Facebook will again accept it and let you in. As in case of the above example where your default password is “myFacebookPass”, if you just change the first letter to UPPERCASE, your password would be “MyFacebookPass” and this should work fine as well:

Please note that this option will work only for the Mobile uers!

Why 3 Passwords?

Now, you all know that Facebook can be accessed using 3 different passwords. But you may be curious to know the actual reason behind it.

Well, this is definitely not because Facebook has a bug or a serious vulnerability. In fact, this is just an option provided by Facebook itself to make the sign-in process easier for the users. Here’s how:

The most common reason for the authentic logins to be rejected is when the CAPS LOCK is ON. This is where the first variation comes in handy. That means, when the CAPS LOCK is ON the case gets reversed (toggled) for your password but Facebook will accept this as well.

In case of mobile users, it is a common for the first letter of the password to get capitalized which often leads to the login failure. So, in order to tackle this issue, Facebook will also accept the password where only the first letter is capitalized.

Thus if the CAPS LOCK is accidentally enabled, the toggled password feature would still let you log in to your account!

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Wedding on Facebook

Wedding on FacbBook - Weddingbuzz | Facebook App

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Weddingbook - Weddingbuzz | Facebook App 

Weddingbook -Weddingbuzz- is a very nice application to help Facebook users plan their weddings. With this nice app the newly weds will arrange all their wedding preparations within Facebook

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