Facebook: Protect data - here's how

Hackers are on the Internet and try to get your data by perfidious tricks. Mostly this happens via so-called phishing emails, where they try to read your password. To prevent this from happening to your Facebook account, you should take a few precautions.

How to protect your Facebook account

There are several things you should keep in mind to ensure that your data remains protected on Facebook.

1. In any case, choose a secure password. How this works exactly, you can read on the corresponding tip page.
2. Furthermore, you should additionally secure your account with a cell phone number. So you get a notification as soon as someone logs in.
3. Log out regularly from all running sessions, so you can make sure that you are not logged on to any PC outside your range. You can see where you are currently logged in everywhere on this Facebook website.
4. Don't be so easy to find. As a rule, anyone can find you on Facebook with various search engines, and this requires only a little information. You can change this circumstance in the settings. Just set every search query to "friends".
5. Also change your chronicle settings to "friends" so that not every unknown person can track your chronicle. You should also set the chronicle checker to "Enabled" so you can check who is posting to your chronicle.