Thursday, January 1, 2009

How to keep your Internet banking session secure

We repeat that an important aspect of safe investing is fraud avoidance. My bank provided me with the following information for safe online banking. [1]:

Check the site is secure
When you visit a website (especially a transaction website) you should look for a padlock in the browser window. The padlock indicates that you are in SSL (secure socket layer) mode, which means that every request or information that you send from the browser to our secure site is encrypted (scrambled and encoded).



Secure sites use digital security, a Trusted Site Seal is a dynamic image appearing on a secure website that allows online banking customers to tell at a glance that they can trust the website, that the online site is validated and that they can transact safely and securely and share information free of worry.

Leading providers of digital security are thawte, VeriSign, Entrust

1. First National Bank (South Africa)

1 comment:

  1. Online banking (or Internet banking or E-banking) allows customers of a financial institution to conduct financial transactions on a secured website operated by the institution, which can be a retail bank,virtual bank, credit union or building society.
    Internet banking

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