{"id":29607,"date":"2012-03-23T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=29607"},"modified":"2012-03-23T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T14:57:02","slug":"daves-computer-tips-online-credit-card-security-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/daves-computer-tips-online-credit-card-security-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave&#8217;s Computer Tips: Online Credit Card Security \u2013 part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc_security.jpg\" alt=\"online credit card security\" title=\"online credit card security\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Dave Hartsock for Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the first of a three part series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using our credit cards online is a security risk, but one most of us deal with. Actually, credit card payment for goods on line is relatively safe from fraudulent charges because credit card companies are required by US federal law to charge you a maximum of $50 dollars US if someone made unauthorized charges on your account (country laws may prevail here, so if you live outside the US, this may be different.) And if you discover a fraudulent charge and report it to the credit card company within 24 to 48 hours of receiving the statement, most will not charge you anything at all (Generally this takes effect after you submit an affidavit to their Fraud Department that you DID NOT make the charge.)<\/p>\n<p>However, that does not make you safe from Identity Theft nor does it make your account number safe from the bad guys SELLING it to other bad guys. There are a whole host of other \u201cbad\u201d things that can happen to you if your CC account number gets stolen; such as the hassles you may have to endure if you need to change your account number, and regular monthly charges to the \u201cold\u201d account don\u2019t go through because of that (changing the account number itself is a hassle). So just because you don\u2019t necessarily have to suffer the fraudulent charges doesn\u2019t mean you are safe from other consequences.<br \/>\nWhile there are some alternatives to CC payment, such as PayPal, configured to link with your checking account as the mode of payment (you can use PayPal to pay by Credit Card too), not all vendors use PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>But for those vendors that have it, they will just redirect you to PayPal, and PayPal IS SSL encrypted (more on SSL in a bit). However, this article is not about transactions via PayPal. This is about Credit Card transactions handled by the site itself.<\/p>\n<p>There are several things you can do to reduce the risk of your credit card account number getting stolen online. (Remember, you can only REDUCE your risk, you can\u2019t eliminate it entirely . . . there\u2019s no such thing as 100% security . . . so this is NOT a guarantee.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Part 1 here, I will deal with encryption as the mechanism for reducing risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make sure your vendor uses secure encryption on the transaction page . . . indicated by an \u201chttps\u201d in your browser\u2019s address bar. That\u2019s not necessarily a guarantee your account number won\u2019t be stolen (more on that in a bit), but if the transaction page does NOT have Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, then it\u2019s like shouting your account number to a clerk in a crowded brick and mortar store . . . everybody hears you say your account number. If the checkout page is NOT under valid SSL, DO NOT give out any personal information such as your Credit Card number.<\/p>\n<p>There used to be a \u201clock\u201d icon down in the status bar of IE to indicate SSL encryption, but recent versions have moved that \u201clock\u201d icon up to the address bar. Clicking that icon in IE will give you SSL Certificate information:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IE8lock_https.png\" title=\"IE8lock\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"395\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davescomputertips.com\/2012\/03\/credit-card-security-part-1-encryption\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt is shared with permission from davescomputertips.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cc_security.jpg\" alt=\"online credit card security\" title=\"online credit card security\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows you buy things online, mostly by credit card. We enter those numbers in the box on the website and a box magically appears at your door a few days later. So simple. Instant gratification. What happens to the credit card numbers you enter? 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