Social network Facebook has introduced two new features to its own security system. This is reported on page Facebook Security.
The first function, "Trusted Friends" ("Faithful Friends"), you can select from three to five friends who will help user to recover your account. To restore not even need to have access to email, which is tied to your account: just enter in the special field codes to be generated by the chosen "Frendo."
The second function, "App Passwords" ("Passwords for Applications") will be useful when using third-party applications using the Facebook account to login. With "App Passwords" you can generate a unique password for that application, and thus to keep a secret password used to log into Facebook.
The commissioning of the new features is confined to a month of computer security (National Cyber Security Awareness Month), which is held every October in the U.S. since 2004. At this time, large public and private organizations engaged in teaching, helping U.S. customers and representatives of the international community to protect against cyber threats.
Friends Can Help Recover Your Facebook Account
There are a couple of simple but important steps you may take to ensure that your Facebook account is always safe and secure from hackers.For instance, you may associate a phone number to your account and Facebook will send a text message whenever someone logs into your Facebook account from a new location or from another computer. It also helps if you can add an alternate email address to your Facebook account as a backup in case you lose access to the primary email address.
Use Trusted Friends to Recover your Facebook Account
Trusted Friends is one of the other useful security related feature of Facebook that some of us may not be aware of (video).You choose any 3-5 friends, who you trust, and Facebook will send them recovery instructions for your account in the worst case scenario where you have forgotten your Facebook password and have also lost access to your email accounts and your mobile phone.
To set up a trusted friends list for your Facebook account, go to your Account Settings –> Security –> Trusted Friends and pick any 3-5 close friends.
If you ever get locked out of our account, Facebook will send recovery codes to all these trusted friends. Next you need to call your friends, collect the codes and submit them to Facebook. After you submit the security codes, you'll have to wait for 24-hours before you can log into Facebook again.
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