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Windows Forum / Security / General Security Topics / July 2008PCPitstop says .................
"Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment information is kept confidential and secure. Shopping on our site is safe! When you provide us with any personal information including your name, address, e-mail and credit card number, it is processed over a secure connection on secure servers. We use Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to encrypt all information you provide before sending it to our servers. SSL is the industry standard and the best software available for secure ecommerce transactions. The VeriSign (PayPal) Secure Site Seal assures you that this web site has been authenticated by PayPal and that confidential transactions with our site are secured by SSL encryption." Am I right in thinking that if a Keylogger is present on a computer, it can read the 'raw' information before same is encrypted and sent to a site to purchase goods, etc. ? In other words, personal and payment information may NOT be secure. > "Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment > information is kept confidential and secure. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > encrypted and sent to a site to purchase goods, etc. ? In other > words, personal and payment information may NOT be secure. Everything you quoted from the web page has nothing to do with everything you asked about later. If your computer is already compromised - you were in trouble long before you ever visited any web page - and no web page (no matter how secure) can protect you from yourself. If you do not start with physical and personal security - no matter how secure everything else is that you utilize (how secure someone else made the stuff you might use) - you are still at risk. You have to protect your own - always and everywhere.  SignatureShenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html What Shenan said. Your house alarm ain't any good if you let the burgler in. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est >> "Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment >> information is kept confidential and secure. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > stuff you might use) - you are still at risk. You have to protect your > own - always and everywhere. EXACTLY! So how can *we* let everyone who uses the Internet know this? There must be a way! Dave > "Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment > information is kept confidential and secure. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > encrypted and sent to a site to purchase goods, etc. ? In other > words, personal and payment information may NOT be secure. Shenan Stanley wrote: > Everything you quoted from the web page has nothing to do with > everything you asked about later. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > else made the stuff you might use) - you are still at risk. You > have to protect your own - always and everywhere. Leonard Grey wrote: > What Shenan said. > > Your house alarm ain't any good if you let the burgler in. > EXACTLY! > > So how can *we* let everyone who uses the Internet know this? > > There must be a way! Not really. Everyone learns differently and everyone has different access to different media types (or interests even.) In the end - you will always have some percentage who will be ignorant of whatever subject you might believe is important. What may be 'common knowledge' to one will be 'complete confusion' to another. No matter what - the weakest link is the end-user (for everything)... for it does not matter how good of a tool you hand them, if they do not use it properly (for whatever reason), the quality craftmanship of the tool does not come into play. (Same for knowledge - if you cannot get it to people *at all* or in a manner they understand or in a way that interests them - nothing is gained.) SignatureShenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> "Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment >> information is kept confidential and secure. [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > *at all* or in a manner they understand or in a way that interests them - > nothing is gained.) Your comments are appreciated, Shenan Stanley. Thank you. However .......... This Microsoft page should be 'enforced' reading for everyone wishing to use a computer connected to the Internet! http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/default.mspx Dave > "Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment information > is kept confidential and secure. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > purchase goods, etc. ? In other words, personal and payment information may > NOT be secure. No one that is not on your host can secure it for you. They can only secure the communications that you send to THEM. Security on your end is your responsibility. >> "Our site uses technology that ensures your personal and payment >> information [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > secure the communications that you send to THEM. Security on your end > is your responsibility. I'll take that as a 'yes' then! Thanks for answering. Dave |
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