Three Tips for Safer Online Transactions

The Internet has come with a wave of business online. Today you can access your bank account from your smart phone, Ipad or Computer, it is that easy. In Makerere there is a large community that uses the ICT resources like Internet. Without Internet business kind of comes to a stand still because it is one of the greatest means of communication. Money being transfered from one network to another [one bank to another], Information being loaded on the website for access and so many other things. 

To Improve Safer Online transaction, not just for Mak community but also you as an individual, Here a three tips that can be of great help.

1. Make sure that the URL of the website begins with https (not http). Https ensures that your username, password, credit card number, expiration date and other information are sent from your computer to the site in encrypted form. Encryption helps to make your connection secure and reduces the risk that malicious people may intercept the information your enter and make illegal use of it.
2. A yellow icon that looks like a padlock at the lower right corner of your browser window confirms that you have a secure connection.
3. Some websites present a certificate of authenticity when you browse to them as a way to assure you that the site is legitimate. Check to make sure the certificate is valid and has not expired. If you are satisfied with the validity of the certificate, click on the link that takes you to the site itself. An invalid or expired certificate may indicate that the site neither authentic nor secure.