Play Secure Online Bingo & Casino

When you enter to a Bingo site, they have a on-line banking module, you need be sure that is 100% secure because you are typing confidential information, such as your bank account number, credit card number and other important data. But how do you know that the site is secure? Because they told you so, right? Wrong! Not everyone tells the truth. Your web browser on the other hand, will indicate to you if the line is secure or not, thus making is virtually impossible for an unauthorized party to access your personal information.

Website ofte establish a secure connection when they ask you to send personal information online.

Both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have similar methods of indicating a secure connection. When a site is secure, both Explorer and Netscape may display a closed Padlock in the status bar, older versions of Netscape may display this as key.

	The status bar is at the very bottom of your web browser . With Internet Explorer, if the connection is not secure,
then the padlock is not displayed. Netscape on the other hand displays an opened padlock.

Another sure way to check if the site's connection is secureis by looking at their web address. It MUST start with "https://" instead of the usual "http://". The "S" after "http" signifies that the line is secure.

Now that you know that the page is on a secure site, how do you know that the page actually belongs to whom you think is does and that you are not actually on a spoofed site (a site that resembles the look of the authentic organization) that was set up by some dishonest person to steal your credit card information? After all, anyone can set up a secure site if they want to.

To verify that the site belongs to the company you think it does, you can double click on the padlock symbol. This should display an SSL (Secured Socket Layer) certificate issued to the person or company whose site are on, confirming that you are actually on their site. There are two levels of encryption, wich means to alter (a file for example) using a secret code so unauthorized parties are unable to access it.

	The different levels of encryption are visible within the parentheses when you move your mouse over the padlock or if you right click. You will see the site has a 40 or 128 bit encryption.
Both are secure, however the amount of time to crack the code doubles with a 128 bit in place.

Companies that issue SSL certificates are know as "trusted third parties". What this means is that you trust the issuer of the certificate that the site belongs to who they say it does.
There are three main companies wich are specifically set up to verify that companies are who they claim to be and issues certificates to that effect. All the major international companies and many others will have certificates issued by Verisign, Entrust or Thawte. Each one of these "trusted third parties" goes to great deal of trouble to ensure that they only issue certificates to the people entitled to have them.

Whatever you actually find out when you check to see if the site does or doesn't have certificate, you have to make the final decision as to wheter you will enter your credit card information.

Just keep in mind that your credit card information carries enough information for scam artist to assume your identify.

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