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Verifying legitimate bank websites

Posted by Moe Bedard On July - 7 - 2008

This can be important because there are many ways to be tricked into thinking you are at, for example, a bank website, when you are really viewing a well-crafted, scam copy designed to steal personal information. Flagfox can go a long way toward verifying that you are really looking at the website you expect. Anyone doing financial transactions online would be well served to use it.

When banks explain why their websites are safe and secure, they focus on the SSL encryption used to transmit data over the Internet. That’s only part of the puzzle however. We can encrypt data and send it to the bad guys too. That’s where Flagfox can help.

The problem is verifying the physical location of legitimate websites.

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