Safety Tips While Online

1. When going to a website, double check that you are on the correct website. Take a look in the address bar that the name of the website is correct. Are you on facebook.com or faceboook.com? This is a simple trick that hackers use.

2. Always use HTTPS instead of HTTP, when possible. This is what is wrote at the begging of a website name in the address bar. The S in HTTPS stand for secure, and provides a secure connection between you and the site you are on.

3. Have you ever noticed the little padlock icon in the address bar beside a website name? This is a security certificate, which in combination with HTTPS encrypts your connection to a website, meaning that even if someone is spying on your connection, the message is encrypted so they can’t read it. Make sure the padlock is locked. Some websites have a green colouring around the padlock, this means that the website has gone through a long process to get verified to prove that they are who they say they are and not a website pretending to be a real site, remember faceboook.com? They could have the padlock, but they are still not the actual Facebook site.