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Security risks and precautionsDigital Certificates

While browsing the internet users can unwittingly download spyware, or become victims of phishing and keylogging software. Fraud, identity theft and server attacks are also becoming more commonplace. To safeguard against this, a server-side validation of online form data and encryption of network traffic is normally used.

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Digital Certificates

Digital certificates are the attachment to an electronic message used for security purposes.

A certificate is used to verify that a user sending a message is who they claim to be and to bind their public key to them.

Certificates can only be issued by certain trusted entities including Google, Symantec, and Comodo.

The 鈥渓ock鈥 icon in your browser shows the status of the certificate. The lock indicates that the website is backed by a digital certificate and is a genuine website and is not a fake set up by criminals.

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