Thursday, April 24, 2008

Online Shopping (Internet connection security)

One of the important things to take not when your doing online shopping is our internet connection seciruty. How do we know that our internet connection are secure?

Most website use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt the perssonal and credit card information that we send over the Internet. You can see that your address bar starts with https: instead of usual http:. Sometimes the website will also inform the users that they are using SSL security.

There are also other security technology, such as Secure Electronic Transaction, or SET, technology which use different principles. SET or SSL technology are designed to make your connection secure. The other ways to tell whether a website uses security software is that you will see a padlock icon at the bottom right of your browse (Internet Explorer).

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