Hacking accounts are rampant in internet world especially in some social networks. We are sometimes confused when we did update our profiles and even can't remember the changes we have made. Have you thought of it that maybe your account was hacked?
This article may help you in a simple way on how to secure your accounts. We will assume that you are attempting to log in now at a site using your account. In the image example above, your password is masked by a system masking feature. Systems, websites, and web browsers has this feature to hide and secure your password. But how secure is it? As you have noticed in the image above and on the second image below, your password was revealed. How did they do this? Websites don't have glitches or faults in this. Users that uses your computer may have done this. Be always aware of using public computers always or even on your personal computer that you might not know that someone is using it.
The thing they did is just a simple unmasking program using Javascript. Javascript is a scripting or a programming language that can control or manipulate and can make changes on a particular element on a web page. If this script is being place in a bookmark on your web browser, they will just click the bookmark and your password will be revealed. This method is called password unmasking.
The simple thing you need to do is don't tick the checkbox object "KEEP ME LOGGED IN" or "REMEMBER ME" or something like that. Just leave it unmarked. If you mark it, the site will remember your account using cookies and caches from your sessions; and after you logged out, your account is still there. That's the opportunity for the hackers to use the script to reveal your password. So let it be a habit for you to unmark that checkbox always to secure your accounts.
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