How to protect your Facebook account from hacking

Social networking site Facebook, despite the enormous popularity, has extremely difficult to master configuration system. Understand a variety of options of forming the tape, display of personal data and security can not every user. The company apparently also understand this problem, and therefore presented a few days ago a new tool with which you can finally figure out how to protect your account from hacking.

A new tool called "security check" appeared on Facebook July 30 and runs until the pre-testing. It is designed to quickly check the current security settings and troubleshoot problems if they are detected. Over the next few weeks you will be able to see on your page an invitation to be tested or, if you prefer, you can run it yourself here.

"Security Check" is framed as a step by step wizard, which is three simple steps will help you to secure your account. The first thing we are invited to close the session of the programs that we have not used. You can do it right there from the drop-down menu with a list of sessions.

The next step is the activation notification that someone is trying to access your account from a new device or browser. You can get alerts directly to Facebook or in the form of letters to the specified email address. So you immediately know that hackers want to crack your account.

Finally, you can change your password to something more robust in the third step. Here we are introduced to the recommendations of the selection a secure passwordAfter which it was right there offered to apply. Now you will know for sure that access to your Facebook-account is safe and fully under your control.

Of course, the functions described above are not something new, but previously they were buried somewhere in the depths of the system settings and hardly catches the eye of a wide range of users. Now get to them has become much easier, so we can hope that the maximum number of people will be able to secure your Facebook account by hacking.