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5 Ways to Protect Your Facebook Account from Getting Hacked

Facebook’s security practices changed for the better after its biggest data breach. If you haven’t heard already, hackers managed to steal 267 million user profiles. And, they did exactly what any other hacker would do - they sold the data on the Dark Web for other malicious actors to exploit. To make the matters worse, this happened only a couple of days after the massive Zoom data breach which affected over half a million users. This just shows how vulnerable your online accounts can be, including Facebook. Even though Facebook has implemented a better cybersecurity infrastructure, that doesn’t mean that your account is 100% safe. Today, even newbie hackers can infiltrate your account. And if they have the means or the know-how, you can easily hack a Facebook account and expose someone's private messages. But luckily, you can also prevent this from happening quite easily. In this article, we’ll go over some important tips that every digital user should implement. Data has be...

Penetration Testing

🔰Penetration Testing🔰
  
Penetration Testing is a method that many companies follow in order to minimize their security breaches. This is a controlled way of hiring a professional who will try to hack your system and show you the loopholes that you should fix.

Before doing a penetration test, it is mandatory to have an agreement that will explicitly mention the following parameters −

>what will be the time of penetration test,

>where will be the IP source of the attack, and

>what will be the penetration fields of the system.

Penetration testing is conducted by professional ethical hackers who mainly use commercial, open-source tools, automate tools and manual checks. There are no restrictions; the most important objective here is to uncover as many security flaws as possible.

⭕️Types of Penetration Testing

1️⃣Black Box − Here, the ethical hacker doesn’t have any information regarding the infrastructure or the network of the organization that he is trying to penetrate. In black-box penetration testing, the hacker tries to find the information by his own means.

2️⃣Grey Box − It is a type of penetration testing where the ethical hacker has a partial knowledge of the infrastructure, like its domain name server.

3️⃣White Box − In white-box penetration testing, the ethical hacker is provided with all the necessary information about the infrastructure and the network of the organization that he needs to penetrate.

4️⃣External Penetration Testing − This type of penetrati

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