It’s amazing how fast you can secure your Tumblr account. The following tips will enable you to secure your Tumblr account.
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It’s amazing how fast you can secure your Tumblr account. The following tips will enable you to secure your Tumblr account.
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Account security for your Facebook account! The following tips will enable you to secure your Facebook account.
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There’s never been a better time than now to check and tighten your LinkedIn account security and privacy: After all, email addresses and hashed (and sometimes already cracked) passwords of the network‘s users have been put up for sale recently.
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Are you afraid of one of your social media accounts being hacked – and how to clean up the mess after the fact? Let’s take it one step further — what can you do preemptively to make your account more secure. Here are 3 tips to reduce the chances that your Twitter account will get hacked.
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Sounds obvious â right? But can you always tell? For instance, if several bloggers contribute posts to the same account, will you know who was supposed to post which article and when? And if you use a service like NetworkedBlogs to automatically publish links from your blog to your Twitter and Facebook accounts, do you really carefully check every tweet and post?
Recommendation:
If you notice unexpected posts on your social media accounts, delete them immediately and change your password.
Most social media services these days enable you to check the location of the last logins â even if they tend to be approximate. So if you are in Germany and you see that someone logged in on a different continent, chances are your account was hacked.
Recommendation:
Regularly check the locations where you supposedly logged in. If you notice an open session in an unexpected location, terminate it. A step-by-step guide on how to do that in Facebook can be found here.
Ever heard of likejacking? It is a derivative of âclickjackingâ, but specific to Facebook. It works as follows: you are lured onto a page with an attractive post, such as the â10 funniest television bloopersâ or âwatch this baby panda sneezeâ. The page is composed of two layers â a front layer, which is a cute sneezing panda, and a back layer, with a Facebook âLikeâ button, which follows your cursor wherever you click. As soon as you do so, youâre Facebook page will get flooded with adsâ¦
Recommendation:
On Facebook you have the ability to check which apps you have liked and can disable them. If you donât know the apps that you find there, remove them from your profile â a hacker may have liked them to get money for every purchase made form those ads. Make sure that their posts are also gone.
Assuming that you didnât simply forget your password, it might be that someone accessed your account and changed your password. Please note that if this is indeed the case, most probably the cyber criminals have also replaced the email address used to recover the password.
Recommendation:
Contact the owner of the platform (e.g.: Facebook, Twitter) â itâs the best way to claim your account back.
Are you now following lots of new and unknown people? For example, malware may hijack your account and make you follow spambots on Twitter or Facebook. This then further spreads malicious URLs to more people. The same applies for a host of private messages/tweets sent from your account â unbeknown to you.
Recommendation:
Change your password immediately. Optionally, we recommend you delete the posts and let everyone know that they should not click on the links posted from your account during the period of time when you were hacked.
If you think you may own a hacked social media account, you can contact the owner here:
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