Facebook launches new tips on the occasion of Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). With the aim of educating its public, a large number of companies with an Internet presence take advantage this month to offer advice and new features at the security level on their respective websites through which users can cover their backs against possible attacks by third parties.
3 Steps to Protect Your Facebook Account
One of these companies has been Facebook, who recently unveiled three new features so that users can protect themselves for the future. Features and tips that help improve the usability of Facebook’s security features and that complicate the work of hackers trying to access the account.
Two-step authentication
The first function that Facebook speaks to us through its post is two-step authentication, which you can access through the following link.
In case you activate it, every time someone tries to access your account from a device you never used, Facebook will send you a notification and ask you to approve the login using an approval code that will reach your mobile phone.
Quick security check
In order to verify the security of your account and the best if necessary, Facebook has enabled rapid security checking. Thanks to this option, you can close your Facebook session in all those browsers and applications that you are not using with just one click.
Through this new feature you can also receive alerts when someone tries to connect from another account and even learn to protect your account.
Login Alert
Among the novelties of Facebook also highlight the login alerts. Thanks to this, every time someone tries to access your account from a mobile phone, a tablet or an unknown computer, the social network will send an alert to your terminal so that you are aware of this login.
Thanks to these tips, your Facebook account will be more secure and you will prevent third parties from accessing it.