Is Online Shopping Safe?

When shopping online, there are many security risks to consider. While nobody is going to be stealing your purse or wallet like might happen in an actual crowded mall, you run many other risks a person in real life doesn’t have to. For example, by leaving your connection open and not making it go through some kind of encryption software or any sort of privacy software or program, a hacker could easily break in to your transaction and see what you have bought, are going to buy, or even deleted or put off of your shopping cart. Also, they could even more maliciously hack into your transaction or your account and steal your identity and credit card numbers and passwords. Many identity thefts happen on sites like these; shopping sites. The user is not protected by any sort of Internet software, and the hacker can easily break in with minimal difficulty.

On top of that, some of these sites are not protected by encryption. You can spot these sites by the gold lock icon in the bottom right of your screen; if it isn’t there, the site you are on is not encrypted. Test it; go onto your online banking site and you can bet you will see that discreet little lock icon. As far as social networking sites and online shopping sites go though, you can’t expect too much from them; many are not protected by encryption. Encryption is a program that encoded all of your data so that when a hacker sees it, all they see is a pile of unintelligible mush.

You can really mess them up by using an anonymous proxy’s encryption services to encode all of your data. When surfing through the private proxy, the data between you and the server is protected.

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