How to enable HTTPS/SSL encryption to secure your Facebook account | Naked Security
In most cases, people only think of online security when they are buying things like books and clothes websites. They know it’s suppose to be “secure” but don’t usually check for important things like a proper certificate or the “HTTPS://” in front of the URL. If the browser doesn’t complain, they are happy.
To the rest of us, we know that these are things that keep our credit cards and personal information safe.
What about online email sites? Rest assured that most of these are safe as long as the HTTPS site has a good certificate and there aren’t encryption errors.
Ok, our shopping is safe. Our email is safe. But what about the countless hours you spend on social web sites like Facebook. After all, you enter your user name and password on a web page, and also share/access quite a bit of personal information.
Facebook has had HTTPS access if the user so chose to use it (by typing https instead of http). It’s not set by default. Security provider Sophos has made a YouTube video on how to do this:
Not only does encryption keep your data from being “read” but it also helps prevent “session hijacking”. These are very important features, especially when accessing open (and untrusted) wireless connections.
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