Facebook hacked, users flooded with porn, violent images

5 STEPS TO SECURE FACEBOOK ACCOUNT 

 Facebook is one of the top accessed website in the world and most popular social networking website. I'm sure many of you who are reading this, must be spending hours of time everyday on Facebook.
Nothing could be worse than losing your own Facebook account or some one getting access to your Facebook account and misusing it.
But now that there are reports of Facebook accounts being hacked I'm sharing five tips which will help you to keep your Facebook login safe and secure.
1. Enable HTTPS login
Recently Facebook brought HTTPS enabled login and this is first step to your Facebook account security. To enable this feature, go to edit account settings and under account security enable secure browsing.

 2. Facebook device login
This is one of the best feature which will make sure that you will get notified whenever your account is compromised. Whenever your account will be logged in from a new device, you will be receiving an email for the same. To enable this feature, go to account settings > Account security and enable features which says 'When a new computer or mobile device logs into this account'.

3. Strong and complex password
One simple way to get into someone's account is by using hit and trial method for password. Brute force are usually useless these days because of complex security measures taken by Facebook. But if I know you as an individual, I may try to try couple of passwords like your girlfriend's name, your birth date and so on. Most of the time this works.
If you wish to be secure your Facebook and other account, you should try using a complex password. More over by changing your password every month and using different password for different account will surely help.

4. Keeping your computer secure
The first place which hackers will target will always be your computer. We have already shared how to keep yourself safe and secure while surfing internet. But let me repeat myself once again, you should be keeping your OS up to date along with Antivirus. If you are tech savvy, I would recommend using any firewall (Comodo is one which I use and recommend) and a Trojan remover.

5. Avoid Facebook spam applications
If you are active user on Facebook, you must have seen spam in the form of Facebook applications like Mark Zuckerberg official announcement and so on. Try not to use any Facebook application if you have not read its review. These days most of such spam applications will spam your friend wall, will ask you to fill a survey or else they will add random people into your account. You can go to application setting page and see which all applications have access to your Facebook account. Disable those which you are not using.

Search engines, social networking driving traffic to websites: Study

Search engines, social networking driving traffic to websites: Study

Research shows that social networking sites, email services and search engines are amongst the top three sources of traffic for many industries in India.

Experian Services India Pvt Ltd, a leading market research company, monitors and provides daily insights on how Internet users interact with websites. The company surveyed the online behaviour of the population of India in different industry categories. The research shows that in terms of driving traffic to a website, search engines rank first contributing a share of 17.25 per cent, social networking sites take the second spot with a share of 13.99 per cent and the third place goes to email services with a share of 8.43 per cent.

According to Chanchal Chakravarty, Leader- Client Leadership, Mindshare South Asia, the reason for a surge in search engines could be the fact that more people are doing research online before going to a manufacturer’s website. “People are checking for user reviews from third parties as they do not have any vested interests and they are not motivated by the seller,” he said.