| Credit cards are the most convenient way to shop | | | | most secure way of transmitting your credit card |
| online. With credit card comes the ability to shop from | | | | information and personal details over the internet. If a |
| anywhere and anytime. Due to all these facilities and | | | | shopping website uses this encryption technology it will |
| simplified online shopping procedures, credit cards are | | | | say it somewhere on their website. The usual place to |
| at the centered of an e-commerce boom. But, | | | | check is the footer or header of the website where |
| instances of credit card fraud while online shopping are | | | | the logos of such encryptions are displayed |
| not unheard and are growing day by day. What can | | | | prominently. |
| save you from such online credit card frauds? In this | | | | 4. Hacker safe |
| two part article series we look at 10 vital tips to make | | | | There are website certification programs which test |
| sure that you don't fall into these traps. | | | | and certify whether a particular website is hacker safe |
| 1. Yellow lock symbol in your browser's status bar | | | | or not. This testing is done on a regular basis and the |
| Modern web browsers ( a software that is used to | | | | dates are displayed along with the certification. A |
| surf the internet) are quite safe and respond to safe | | | | website which has undergone some kind of hacker |
| sites. They do it by embedding a yellow lock in the | | | | safe testing is definitely a better bet to depend on. |
| status bar of your browser whenever they go to a | | | | 5. Privacy Policy |
| secure website. Always check for this yellow lock in | | | | Don't do business, or shop on websites which don't |
| the status bar of your browser. | | | | have a privacy policy clearly written in an |
| 2. https:// and yellow address bar | | | | understandable format. The Privacy Policy of any |
| Whenever you reach a secure website the url of your | | | | website is a document that tells you how the website |
| website will change from http:// to https:// and along | | | | will use the credit card and other vital personal |
| with this, if you are using a latest web browser the | | | | information from collected from you. The privacy policy |
| color of the status bar will also change to yellow. | | | | should clearly state that the website won't share, sell |
| Some browser show a yellow lock right there in the | | | | or use the information collected by you in any other |
| address bar. | | | | manner so as to threaten your financial, personal or |
| 3. Encryption | | | | online security. |
| E-commerce websites, which practice safe shopping | | | | The second part of this article series takes a look at 5 |
| experience for their customers use 128 bit encryption | | | | more vital online shopping tips. |
| and more to transfer the data. This is the latest and | | | | |