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Facebook on Thursday continued to fortify its security features, adding the option for app passwords as well as "trusted friends."
With Trusted Friends, Facebook will allow users to decide three to five friends who can help if you're ever locked out of your account. "We'll send codes to the friends you have selected, then you can log back into your account using these codes after your friends have passed them along to you," Facebook said.
The social network likened the feature to affording a friend a key to your house when you go out of town.
Given some of the security issues that have cropped up approximately third-party apps, meanwhile, Facebook will allow users to add passwords for some of these apps.
"There are tons of applications you can use by logging in with your Facebook certificate. However in some cases you may want to have a unique password for that application," Facebook said. "This is especially helpful if you have opted into Login Approvals, for which security codes don't always work when using 3rd party applications."
To enable, go to Account Settings, Security tab, and the "App Passwords" department. "You can generate a password that you won't need to remember, just enter it along with your email when logging into an application," Facebook said.
To highlight some of the other security features it has released in recent years, meanwhile, Facebook produced an infographic, which is posted below.
"Our appreciable work has undoubtedly made Facebook a safer environment—less than half a percent of users experience spam on any given day and only a fraction of fraction of a percent of our users ever experience any security-related issues," Facebook said. "But we know at that place plenty of more act to be done, so we will keep striving to make sure that every time you log in to Facebook, you have a safe and social experience. We are adapting and responding to fresh threats everyday and will continue to bring the people that use our internet site new ways to protect themselves." pcmag.com
With Trusted Friends, Facebook will allow users to decide three to five friends who can help if you're ever locked out of your account. "We'll send codes to the friends you have selected, then you can log back into your account using these codes after your friends have passed them along to you," Facebook said.
The social network likened the feature to affording a friend a key to your house when you go out of town.
Given some of the security issues that have cropped up approximately third-party apps, meanwhile, Facebook will allow users to add passwords for some of these apps.
"There are tons of applications you can use by logging in with your Facebook certificate. However in some cases you may want to have a unique password for that application," Facebook said. "This is especially helpful if you have opted into Login Approvals, for which security codes don't always work when using 3rd party applications."
To enable, go to Account Settings, Security tab, and the "App Passwords" department. "You can generate a password that you won't need to remember, just enter it along with your email when logging into an application," Facebook said.
To highlight some of the other security features it has released in recent years, meanwhile, Facebook produced an infographic, which is posted below.
"Our appreciable work has undoubtedly made Facebook a safer environment—less than half a percent of users experience spam on any given day and only a fraction of fraction of a percent of our users ever experience any security-related issues," Facebook said. "But we know at that place plenty of more act to be done, so we will keep striving to make sure that every time you log in to Facebook, you have a safe and social experience. We are adapting and responding to fresh threats everyday and will continue to bring the people that use our internet site new ways to protect themselves." pcmag.com
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