How to Set Privacy Settings in Facebook
Social media has now become a gold mine of easily-accessible information for online crime, packed with sensitive and Personally Identifiable Information(PII) - providing the perfect ingredients for social engineering attacks.
Facebook is one of the most popular social network and has also become a hotbed for social engineering cyber attacks. Here are some steps you can take to avoid social engineering attacks by hardening your privacy settings in Facebook.
Steps to Strengthen Privacy Settings
- Open Facebook page and click on your name to go to the profile page.
2. Click on the three dot icon and select the 'Profile and tagging settings' in the drop down list
3. Click on the Privacy tab under Settings
4. In the Privacy Shortcuts section click on 'Check a few important settings'
5. From the Privacy Checkup page you can change some important privacy settings for your profile
6. Click on 'Who can see what you share' and click continue
7. Review all your Profile Information and choose the settings using the button to the right of each profile data.
For example, to change the settings for Phone number:
Click on the 'Public' button to the right of phone number
Select audience to 'Friends'
8. Click on Next button after making the required changes in one page
9. Click on Review Another Topic
10. Click on 'How to keep your account secure' in the Privacy Checkup
11. Click on continue button and review password according to the tips provided
12. Click Next
13. Click on the toggle button to turn on alert notification when someone logs into your account from a new location/device
14. Click on Next and Review Another Topic
15. Click on 'How people can find you on Facebook' and click Continue
16. Choose friends of friends if you are getting too many friend request that you don't want.
17. Click on Next and choose who can look up by your phone number and email address
18. Click on Next and toggle button if you do not want search engine(like Google) outside Facebook to link your profile.
19. Click on Review Another Topic
20. Click on 'Your data settings on Facebook' and click continue
21. From the list remove unwanted Apps and websites from which you have used Facebook to log in