Posted by Mark Brousseau
Keep Your Online Transactions Safe
by Sasha Segall
From Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, September 2008
1. Update your Web browser to the latest version and look for a green address bar that indicates extensive identity-verification checks.
2. Review each site's privacy policy and make sure it will not share your information.
3. Before entering credit-card information, check that the page's URL changes to "https"; the s stands for secure (for instance, https://www.kiplinger.com/orders/magazine).
4. Look for a little padlock icon by the status bar or next to the URL, symbolizing a Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which encrypts transmitted data for privacy.
5. Be skeptical of Web sites with grammatical errors, misspellings or faulty links.
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