How To Protect Facebook, Twitter From FaceNiff Hack
Few days back I wrote an article about FaceNiff, an Android app that lets users access web sessions profiles over Wi-Fi networks and hijack your connected Facebook or Twitter account. If your connection is unsecured, then anyone using FacNiff can easily deflect your data or steal your information.
How to protect your accounts from FaceNiff?
Here’s a tip you can follow. In order to protect your Facebook and Twitter accounts from being hijacked, always browse using a https connection.
FaceNiff, however, cannot hijack accounts that use https browsing. HTTPS encrypts the data sent and received with SSL, thus making it impossible to access your account.
By default, Facebook’s and Twitter’s https browsing is disabled. You must enable it manually from it’s settings page.
Facebook: Go to Account Settings and scroll down to Manage Account Security. Enable secure browsing by ticking it and save the settings.
Twitter: Go to Settings page and scroll down to enable https browsing. You’ll be prompted to re-enter your password to save the settings.
That’s all!
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