Privacy issues have been on the front of Facebook news for a little over a year now, but have you ever thought about the security of your account? Hacking accounts and getting malware to spread around the internet is something that should always be on your mind. With a website as large as Facebook, it’s a perfect breeding ground for malicious behavior. Not to mention the many users are younger and might not have the sense that what they are doing could cause a very large problem for people.

News websites, videos and other types of attempts to get you to click a link that sends you to a malware laden website are popping up on Facebook at an alarming rate. One friend check’s it out and then their friends check it out and it goes from there, spreading the virus like wildfire. Facebook will now display a warning message any time you click a link that might be sending you off the site into a site that is not safe.

Each day something new pops up and it tends to follow a breaking news story or some kind of celebrity news. People click on these because they believe they are going to read about the news, but end up creating a problem they cannot solve before it’s too late. Some people might not realize that the attacks that happen have more to do with what browser you are using. Internet Explorer 9 has a couple of things in place to help block this activity. Facebook is currently working with other browser companies to help make using Facebook safer in any browser setting.

To combat “clickjacking”, Facebook will not ask you to confirm your “like” before it is posted to your profile for your friends to see. This will make sure that you are aware you are sending information to your news feed before you go ahead and do it.

Facebook is also offering up a two step authentication for your login page. The “Login Approvals” will alert a user to enter a code that Facebook will send via text message to a mobile phone, before they can complete the login process. Facebook is also teaming up with Web of Trust service. This free service gives user a little more information about sites they might be clicking to before they get that far. Notes about why a site might be dangerous will be posted, which gives the user time to go back one page or ignore the note and move on. Web of Trust has over 31 million ratings for sites across the internet.