Hacking
actually becomes activity which can be found quite often recently. With the
fact about internet which is getting more and more familiar to modern people
life, there is no question that people want to explore the internet more and
more including by hacking. People usually will find that hacking will be done
to certain website. Website hacking actually can be found a lot but people can
also find that there are also many cases of Facebook hacking. It sounds useless
but many people are troubled when their Facebook account is hacked. The hacking
method for Facebook is varied after all.
Cookies Stealing
Internet
is all about information and people will be able to steal the cookies which
allow a website to collect information on the hard drive of user’s computer and
retrieve it later. It means that hacker can sniff out the important information
which is contained by the cookies. They can steal it when they are on the same
Wi-Fi network with the victim. Hackers will not get the actual login password
but they will be able to access the account of the victim. People can click the
saved cookies from Fire sheep which is add-on from Firefox which can collect
cookies as well as store them. However, this step can be done if the Facebook
users are still logged in. people can follow the tutorial video from http://www.socialhacks.net/.
Protection
People
of course do not want to have troublesome experience with Facebook hacking so
they have to make some steps for protecting their selves. They can go to
account setting on Facebook and check under Security. People should enable the
Secure Browsing. People can also use full time SSL by utilizing the add-ons
from Firefox including Force-TLS and HTTPS-Everywhere. They must not forget to
log off the website when they are done. People should use the Wi-Fi networks
which are trustworthy and they also should use VPN.
