Ever wonder what all the security and identification stuff means when logging on to a website?

One of the many threats facing cyber-security is phishing. It refers to a situation where an impostor tries to masquerade as a valid e-commerce site in order to conduct fraudulent financial transactions and/or to obtain confidential consumer information.

Phishers, just as the word suggests, get past the unsuspecting eyes of innocent online consumers by using misspellings of popular websites. This cyber-felony has been thriving largely by exploiting the loopholes in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a decade-old technology that heretofore has been regarded as the foundation of trust in e-commerce. Read more