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New Post has been published on https://www.vegasnewspaper.com/find-out-how-secure-your-favorite-websites-are/
Find out if your favorite website is safe?
Recent research revealed that intruders obtain access to private information from non-secure websites.
Since intruders don’t require a physical presence to a victim’s PC, Mobile phone or tablet to gain access.
How to spot a secure website & non secure website?
When was the last time you checked the security of a website?
Over 75% of website visitors don’t notice if the website they are visiting or shopping from is secure, thus exposing them to a potential identity theft.
Identifying a website is simple and straight forward.
Website with protocol http:// and listening on a non-secure port, eg port 80; 8088 or other non-secure port(s) is a website serving a non-secure content
Website with protocol https// and listening on a secure port, eg port 443 or other secure port(s) is a website serving a secure content
Since there is a lot of people believed in seeing https on website make it secure; attacker still sniff website with https but with very low success rate.
Hovering over the protocol, i.e the “https://” or double click on it will bring our more information about the validity of the secure connection, and Certificate Authority that provide the encryption and issued the certificate.
Website using EV SSL (Extended Validation SSL) will have their name displayed inside the browser bar with green bar sorrounding the company name, and abbreviation of the country where the company is located.
Not only banks and e-commerce website should have an encrypted connection and contents, but social media, online news and tv/radio website should maintain encrypted contents and connection in other to create and maintain a secure online community.
In an effort to provide a safer & secure website for our fans, readers, and advertisers.
Today, the September 3, 2014, we would like to announce that vegas newspaper” href=”https://www.vegasnewspaper.com”>Vegas Newspaper’s website www.vegasnewspaper.com has an encrypted connection along with the Identity Assurance up to $1,750,000.00 covering the entire site and its contents.
At Vegas Newspaper, we belive in a ‘Secure Community’.
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