Facebook

[Bean]

Use something like this to set a secure password

http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/

[Norman Verona]

Thanks chaps, I've deleted my account. I must have created it in a moment of madness but it's going now.

So to all my friends on here, sorry, it's nothing personal but I just haven't time to be messing with it.

[Kevin Jones]

There are a couple of other things you should always do when using Facebook for better security.

1. Turn on 'Secure browsing' under 'Account Settings -> Security'

2. Check the URL in the browser starts with 'https' when you logon, if not the secure browsing is not working properly.

The default settings used on FB are OK for home use but not really good enough if you access over other networks, particularly WiFi.

[Mike H]

But aren't these things linked to email accounts?

Could it be that someone has hacked her email instead? You should change the password on any linked email accounts too. You don't want someone pretending they've forgotten the password and getting in via some kind of password reset message sent to her email account.

Mike

[JeffC]

I wondered about that, Ive joined a couple of other forums and simply log in using my facebook account, will this then pass my log in info onto others ?

[Kevin Jones]

Think Mike is spot on about the email account being another route in.

Jeff, its fine if they redirect you to login at FB, i.e. it's a FB login page that you enter your password on. In that case FB just tells the forum you have logged in OK so your password is protected. There is a downside though, logging in with a FB id helps FB track you better and can let the forum take liberties with your account, not a security issue just a privacy one that FB like to exploit to the max along with Google, Apple et al.