Protecting your online accounts from Pirates

Perhaps of the most concern for the human is to steal sensitive personal information about you, and more to our own personal social networks, this information is packaged, unconsciously, because you may put this information on the periods, consequently we must maintain by all means the power to secure your phone and social media to avoid anything that might come to you a headache in the head if someone Bach future; from here he was obliged to recall some of the actions that will make the process of infiltrated close to impossible if not impossible originally



First and foremost: you must make sure that your phone and your computer safe from the hands of volunteers through

Maintaining screen lock in all your devices:

You always have to adjust the settings of any device you are using so that is the activation lock screen after a very short duration of you stop using the device, in order to prevent any hacking into your accounts in case you lose your device or use one around you not being next to the device and access to data may facilitate the process of the hack later.
You should also use a strong passcode and get away completely from the use of pass codes easy like your birthday, it is also advised to use the characteristics of the insurance of biometric such as fingerprint or facial recognition if available on your phone.

Strong non-duplicate passwords and dual authentication feature:
Think you use the word different password for each of your accounts of the most important steps of the insurance with the care that the passwords are strong and difficult to guess, in order to avoid exposure to the breach, which may be through the use of your email address or your phone number and store several passwords with a software piracy.

You should also use Two-Factor Authentication in your Facebook, Twitter and other accounts, where a different new code is sent to your phone for use every time you access your account.
To activate two-factor authentication in your Facebook account, please select “Settings” then “security log” and then go to the section “authentication” and enter your account password to be able to activate this feature.

As in Twitter you can activate this feature go to “Settings & Privacy” and then choose “Account” and “security” section click on “document log“.
Using a different powerful password for each of your accounts, while activating the binary authentication function, will help you reduce your chances of being hacked very significantly.

Control of all your devices from anywhere:

Most of US uses more than one device to access his account on social networking sites such as Lost using your phone while on the move outside the house while using a computer while you are at work, and that's why the Facebook allows users to control and track the devices they use to access their accounts.



To take advantage of this feature in your Facebook account go to “Settings” then select “Security log” you will see a list of all the devices you use to access your account this includes the types of hardware and operating system used and the last date to enter in addition to the clarification of whether the device is active now or not, you can from this section, sign out of any device you buy that you didn't use it to login to your account you can also log out of any device lost or any device that exists in a place far away and you can't access it.


You can also activate the feature to receive notifications on your email or Facebook Messenger when you log in to your account from the browser or device do not use it periodically, and you can activate this feature from the “preparation for additional security measures within the same section of the security and log in” this property is not present than Twitter so it is recommended to enable two-factor authentication on your account on Twitter.

Limitation of third-party application authority:


Although it is difficult for a hacker to exploit a third-party application trusted to hack your accounts, but it is recommended that you review all third-party apps that granted access to your accounts as well as deleting any apps you don't need.


You can control third-party apps that give it permission to access your Facebook account from the “settings” and then choose “applications and websites“, as in Twitter you can do so by accessing the “settings” and then select “applications“.


Watch your personal information. :


Is recommended to reduce the volume of personal information you publish about yourself on your accounts on social media sites, you are also advised to close any accounts you no longer use since a long time so be your accounts you follow frequently is the focus of attention and follow-up.