{"id":20421,"date":"2010-12-24T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2010-12-24T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:11:01","slug":"increase-facebook-account-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/increase-facebook-account-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase Facebook Account Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is one of most widely used Social Network and it seems like most likely everyone who is online is having an account with this service. Now that everyone is having a account, it seems like the number of attacks being happening on these accounts is also increasing hence its important to ensure the security of the accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strengthen Your Security &#8211; You can reach a &#8220;High&#8221; Account Control level by completing the following actions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Add and confirm a second email address<\/li>\n<li> Confirm a mobile number<\/li>\n<li> Answer a security question<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Step 1 : Email Address<\/h3>\n<p>You need to update your account security by adding another email address to ensure that if you loose your primary email address you can still recover it through the second email address you have added in your account. To set this click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/update_security_info.php?wizard=1&#038;src=netego\">this<\/a> link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-300x179.png?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"Facebook Account Security\" title=\"Facebook Account Security\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security.png?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security.png?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security.png?w=610&amp;ssl=1 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your contact email must always be a valid address. Please enter an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/facebook-email-address-invitation-messages\/\">email address and facebook<\/a> will send you a verification code. You can have multiple email addresses on your account, making it easier for people to find you.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2 : Facebook Mobile<\/h3>\n<p>In the second step you need to enter your mobile phone number and signup with Facebook mobile service to ensure that you can login to your account back in case you get issues with it. Click on Mobile Phone > + Sign up for Facebook mobile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Mobile-Verification.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Mobile-Verification-300x160.png?resize=300%2C160\" alt=\"Facebook Account Mobile Verification\" title=\"Facebook Account Mobile Verification\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Mobile-Verification.png?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Mobile-Verification.png?resize=150%2C80&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Mobile-Verification.png?w=610&amp;ssl=1 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will asked to select the country and the network carrier following which you could you would get a confirmation code on your mobile. If that does not work you will have to send a Text message with the letter F to 9232232665 (92FACEBOOK). <\/p>\n<h3>Step 3 : Security Question<\/h3>\n<p>The final step would be updating your security information in the form of adding a security question and answer. You will be shown with a list of different questions out of which you need to select one and then proceed with the save and continue option to set it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-Question.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-Question-300x186.png?resize=300%2C186\" alt=\"Facebook Account Security Question\" title=\"Facebook Account Security Question\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-Question.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-Question.png?resize=150%2C93&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-Question.png?w=611&amp;ssl=1 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once all the options are set your account is secured and you can enjoy all the facebook features without any worry about being hacked. <strong>Do share this article with your facebook friends and help them stay secured and informed<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is one of most widely used Social Network and it seems like most likely everyone who is online is having an account with this service. Now that everyone is having a account, it seems like the number of attacks being happening on these accounts is also increasing hence its important to ensure the security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facebook","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Facebook-Account-Security-300x1791.png?fit=300%2C179&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5087,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-lost-google-gmail-password\/","url_meta":{"origin":20421,"position":0},"title":"How to Recover Lost Google Gmail Password","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"July 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Iam a heavy gmail user, adwords advertiser, adsense publisher, Google alerts subscriber, blogspot blogger, Google docs user, Google analytics, user, Google knol publisher, google friend connect user, orkut member, Google talk user, Google maps user, feedburner publisher and a lot more and it would be a real shock at least\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Security Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Security Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/security\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Google Password Assistance","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/Images\/G\/Google-Password-Assistance.PNG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11472,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/facebook-login-tips-for-secure-browsing\/","url_meta":{"origin":20421,"position":1},"title":"Facebook Login Tips for Secure Browsing","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"June 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Logging into facebook is not always a normal action, as it poses some risk to the users who unknowingly login to facebook through the non-real pages, which are created by hackers who try to use some phishing tricks to steal the login data of that particular user trying to login\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Tips &amp; Tweaks&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Tips &amp; Tweaks","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/tips-tweaks\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Facebook Login Security","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Facebook-Login-Security-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11286,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/how-to-fix-google-gmail-account-disabled-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":20421,"position":2},"title":"How to Fix Google Gmail Account Disabled Problem","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"June 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today after months we wanted to check out one of our email directly which was recently getting many bounced emails. 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