[Facebook Security] Securing your facebook account

Again, my Facebook account was hacked by unknown personal from KL. I was quite frustrated on what happened, done a few things to get back my account.

First, when you want to log-in your Facebook account. Make sure you are log-in via the https://www.facebook.com but not http://www.facebook.com. They are different and you will know how if you continue reading this post.

Also, I figured out some new ways to secure my account and I think most of the people do not know about this (even myself until I had been told). I will share it here and kindly ignore if you already know about HTTPS and LOGIN NOTIFICATION, or you do not care about your Facebook account.

Enabling secure browsing
By default, Facebook was only provides secure HTTP (HTTPS) whenever your id and password needed to be transmit, and remains using normal HTTP for viewing. It means that the information in the log-in page (ID, password,etc..), it is highly safe from threats (hacker,etc..) but what you view or type after that is possible to be known by others.

Facebook now has an option for the users to use HTTPS not only during log-in page, but using it all the time in the Facebook, known as secure browsing (none of your info related to Facebook is public to others).

It is easy to enable it. Click on your account setting. Scroll down until you see Account Security. Then tick the "Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible" check box.

Login notification
Below the https stuff, there is another option called login notification. It is recommended for you to enable login notification as well. With this option being enabled, every login (performed by anyone) of your account will be notified through sending an email or sms to you. In case of unauthorized login, you can terminate the unauthorized login session through clicking "end activity" at the account security webpage. You can even know where the unauthorized login performed.

You can even do this on your WINDOW LIVE mail

For personal without Information Technology background:
HTTP - you can assume it as a single webpage.

[Personal Sharing] Cycling

2nd of April, cycling under the Sun at around 30°C is like cycling in hell, but it is a quite good training for both mental and physical strength.

The water taps in the petrol stations along the road helped me a lot for cooling my body temperature.

[Complaint/Local] Is this the waste management we want?

On 21/3/2011 (Monday), 12.15pm, a waste management lorry finally passed by my house since they never come for few days. The workers who collect the waste of every house have a serious bad ethical problem.

After they transferred the waste to the truck, they pour the liquid remained in the rubbish bin into the houses (parking area), causing the air quality in my area drops, I simplify it as VERY SMELLY.

Still remember I read news regarding to the waste management few days ago, stating that government will only start charging citizens some fees when the era of 0 complaints. I wonder, when that day will comes?

[Technology/Security] Android 's User See Here

Recently, some apps in Android Apps Store are believed to be lined with malicious code that able to steal user's information (privacy risk).

This is mainly caused by the openness of Android, which will approved any apps to be put into its apps store and allow anyone to download them regardless of the handphone's OS you using. Even though the characteristic of Android makes a lot of developers love it, but it raises the security risk.

Present, Android has been pulled out those malicious apps from the apps stores and released a patch for the flaw exploited on the Android OS.

I would like to advice any android users who reading this post to run updates of your hand phone and check out these websites if you want to know are you affected by these malicious apps.
http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/android-malware-apps/
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/new-android-threat-gives-phone-root-canal

For more information, please refer to
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/02/google.android.hack/index.html?npt=NP1