• CHUKWUDOZIE Ndidiamaka
• MUHAMMAD Sanusi
• MUSAH Abdulmumini Yakubu

Social Networking sites are generally vulnerable to insecurity and this causes the risk of attack and leaking of personal information by unauthorized and unintended recipient users. The contemporary web services provide users with an alternative email address or security question to recover passwords for their page. However, this approach can easily be broken by other unauthorized users. In this research work, a more efficient technique using two-layer phases is proposed. The technique involves; (i) Backup of personal details. (ii)The use of trusted friends to recover the password. The trusted friends are configured in the initial registration of the user. This paper reviewed other research work that was conducted in the area. In the research, the use of encryption is considered to be adopted and a blowfish algorithm is found to be better and more secure.

Social Networking Sites, Security, Encryption.

"EFFICIENT AND SECURED TECHNIQUE FOR AUTHENTICATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.262-266, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907Q83.pdf

"EFFICIENT AND SECURED TECHNIQUE FOR AUTHENTICATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp262-266, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907Q83.pdf