As announced in Facebook’s official blog, they have introduced two main new security features to further protect their user accounts from hackers and scammers.

From now on, users can choose to be notified when their accounts are being accessed from the computers or mobile devices they haven’t used before. Should Facebook detect any suspicious login with the user account, they will ask the person to name the device name, in addition to send an email notification to the account holder as a warning message.

However, to enable this new Facebook security feature, Facebook users have to log-in to their accounts and manually configure the following setting:

1) Log in and click on “Account” at the top right of the page

2) Then on account page, click on “Settings”

3) On the Account Settings page, click on “Account Security”

4) The last step is to change the selection from No to Yes, as shown in the below picture.

Meanwhile, they also add a new layer of security that works at the personal security question; whenever there is a suspicious login, Facebook will prompt the person for identity confirmation.

In fact, the back-end mechanism of these features is targeting at the IP level to automatically match the IP address of one logged in to Facebook, and hopefully these new additions can help to further protect Facebook users from malicious individuals.

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