Facebook as we know is the most popular social- networking site with over a billion users, which makes it a very delicious delicacy for hackers who can penetrate the system.

This are the most popular ways that hackers are using to penetrate and hijack peoples facebook account and use it for illlegal things.

1. BruteForce Attack

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Any password can be cracked easily using Brute-force attack. Brute-force attacks are series of techniques that try every possible combinations of numbers, letters and special characters until the right password is match.

Brute-force attacks usually take a very long time depending upon the complexity of the password. The time required to crack the password is determined by the complexity of the password and the processing speed of the computer.

Countermeasure: Use long and complex passwords. Try to use combination of upper and lowercase letters along with numbers. Brute-force attack will take hundreds or even thousands of years to crack such complex and long passwords.
Example: Passwords like “12345” or “password” can be cracked easily with this technique unlike passwords like “tHIS_2MaRtG33K”

2. Social Engineering



In a lame man understanding Social engineering is process of manipulating someone to trust you and get information from them.
For example, if a hacker wants to get the password to a workers laptop, he may call another co-worker and act like his supervisor. Sometime hackers call the victim pretending to be from bank and ask for their credit cards details.

Countermeasure: If someone tries to get your personal or bank details ask them few questions. Make sure the person calling you is legit. Never ever give your credit card details on phone.

3. Rats And Keyloggers



In key logging or RATing the hacker sends key logger or rat to the victim. This allows hacker to monitor every thing victim do on his computer. Every keystroke is logged including passwords. moreover hacker can even control the victim’s computer.

Countermeasure: Never login to your bank account from cyber cafe or someone else computer. If its important use on-screen or virtual keyboard while tying the login. Use latest anti-virus software and keep them updated.

4. Phishing



Phishing is the most easiest and popular hacking method used by hackers to get someone account details. In Phishing attack hacker send fake page of real website like facebook, gmail to victim.
When someone login through that fake page his details is send to the hacker. This fake pages can be easily created and hosted on free web-hosting sites.
Countermeasure: Phishing attacks are very easy to avoid. The url of this phishing pages are different from the real one. For example URL of phishing page of facebook might look like facbbook.com (As you can see There are two “b”). Always make sure that websites url is correct.

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