How to increse your Facebook Account Security by configuring HTTPS

Now you can enable more security on your Facebook account by enabling it login on an HTTPS session. If you are a regular user of Hackstacks you must have read about this new feature in my previous article. Now the service is ready available for you! so let’s configure it and see how it can help you to secure the account from any hacking attempts!

First you need to go to Account>Account Settings>Account Security

1) Secure Browsing (https) – Enabling this feature will use https tunnel to login to your Facebook account so it gives more security when you browse from a public wi-fi or from the airport even it block man in the middle attacks and stops intercepting your browser session.


2) Logon Notification – Enabling this will notify you whenever there is an account log-in activity takes place. Meaning if someone tries to access your account from a different computer you will be notified with information such as computer name, location, IP Address, logged-in time etc.

So if you get such unusual notification on your account you can come to Account Security tab and end that activity from your account. Also make sure you change the account password ASAP.



The above screen will pop-up when you log-in from a new computer so once you enter the computer name and register it with your account it will not prompt this message next. That means the computer name will mark it as trusted under your for your Facebook profile.

Hope it was helpful. Let us know it!