Internet Banking

[OZEMADE]

A bit of good useful info...ON LINE BANK SECURITYbest way to check for yourself is to go to your bank site and go to login...you will see the "s" in https:// appear. MANY PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE OF

**The main difference between http:// and https:// is It's all about keeping you secure**

HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol,

which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking)

for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.

The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.

The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://.

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website!

But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.

If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number.

PASS IT ON

(You may save someone a lot of grief)

Edited December 12, 2008 by OZEMADE

[GuestHouse]

Can you go back and edit that to remove all the bold face and red type.....

Getting the message across is easier when you don't assault your reader so.

I feel sick to the stomach having tried to read that.

[OZEMADE]

Can you go back and edit that to remove all the bold face and red type.....

Getting the message across is easier when you don't assault your reader so.

I feel sick to the stomach having tried to read that.

I'll give it a go.

[OriginalPoster]

A bit of good useful info...ON LINE BANK SECURITYbest way to check for yourself is to go to your bank site and go to login...you will see the "s" in https:// appear. MANY PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE OF

**The main difference between http:// and https:// is It's all about keeping you secure**

HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol,

which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking)

for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.

The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.

The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://.

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website!

But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.

If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number.

PASS IT ON

(You may save someone a lot of grief)

Thank you for the more unreadable post ever. The only thing that I could think of that would have improved it is if you had made every other line bright green instead of bold, unldelined, massively fonted red.

[OZEMADE]

Can you go back and edit that to remove all the bold face and red type.....

Getting the message across is easier when you don't assault your reader so.

I feel sick to the stomach having tried to read that.

I'll give it a go.

Hows that GH

[JetsetBkk]

...I feel sick to the stomach having tried to read that.

Hmm, something worth remembering.

[Koo82]

Thanks for the info. No harm to know it.

[Martian]

Be careful, many of them may start out as an http site but when you go to the login page, it switches to https.........don't pass judgment until you check this out.

Martian

[wxpwzrd]

Keep in mind that the certificate assigned to a secure connection is only as good as the assurance and investigation that went into issuing it. The certificate itself only encrypts the data across the wire. There is much more to a true secure transmission and transaction.

[yabaaaa]

A bit of good useful info...ON LINE BANK SECURITYbest way to check for yourself is to go to your bank site and go to login...you will see the "s" in https:// appear. MANY PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE OF

**The main difference between http:// and https:// is It's all about keeping you secure**

HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol,

which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking)

for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.

The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.

The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://.

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website. If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website!

But if the web address begins with https://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.

If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number.

PASS IT ON

(You may save someone a lot of grief)

A friend of mine used to advise big companies ie HALIFAX bank and others on security on the interenet and he told me " you would not believe how insecure and badly set up they are"!!

[mahtin]

Another good thing to look for is the little padlock on the bottom line, which when you mouse over it says "Authenticated by VeriSign Inc" or similar.