to avoid risk, you should set all security alerts to high on your web browser.
- displays a lock when the website is secure
disable or delete cookies
-cookies- small files placed on your hard drive by web servers so that they can recognize your PC when your return to their site
for online baking services, make sure they use digital certificate
also a browser must be compliant with SSL
-digital certificate- files that are like digital identification card and that identify users and web servers
-SSL- Secure Sockets Layer
a protocol which provides secure transactions
Email privacy
- As your email travels across the net, it is temporarily on to many computers in between
- It can be read by people who illegally enter computer systems
- to protect a message is to encode it with some form of encryption.
- A system designed to send email privately is Pretty Good Privacy, a freeware program written by Phil Zimmerman
-encrypt- to change electronic information or signals into a sercret code that people cannot understand or use on normal equipment
- decrypt - to change electronic information or signals that were stord, written, or sent in the form of a secret code back into a form that you can understand and use normally