SSL 101: Use Your Credit Card Online with Confidence

Online fraud is one of the leading ways for thieves to steal your credit, rob you of your money, and take away your personal identity and your confidence to shop online. People are so wary of online credit fraud—and for good reason—that they don’t even shop online. Some people, and you probably know some of them, resolve themselves to shopping by phone or through the mail the old-fashioned ways.

This makes sense because, really, there are so many ways for people to rob you online. They could steal your credit card the old-fashioned way—right out of your wallet—and simply use the card number and its expiration date online. Or, more insidiously, they could hack into a online shop’s Web site and steal your credit card information from there, either as you type it in or from where the store saves all its customers