How to know if a web page is safe

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Sometimes we visit certain web which we are not very clear if they result safe. Throughout the Internet there are large companies that generate total trust, but on certain occasions we doubt about whether a site is trustworthy or not, or even if it could be false.

However, there are a number of clues that will help us. A web page that meets certain conditions has a much better chance of being secure. Yes, we must take a good look to remove conclusions, y valorar diversos aspectos. Hoy en Actualidad Gadget, os contamos todos los tricks to ensure the reliability of a web page.There are various reasons through which we can determine reliability of a web. Certain details that would be comparable to a photo pasted over on a DNI, or spelling mistakes in an official document.

How did we get to the web?

This is the first question we must ask ourselves when determining whether a web page is reliable or not. In recent years, the pishing it has spread very quickly. In case you don't know what it is, it is a technique through which e-mails with links are sent to web pages, trying impersonating a well-known organization or company (a bank, telephone companies or similar) to steal personal data.

As its purpose is to obtain data such as passwords, users, PIN codes, etc., the systems used are very ingenious, even going so far as to falsify names using non-latin alphabets letters, but very similar to the originals, to try to confuse us. Therefore, the best is always enter us manually the address to access the web that we want, or write it in a search engine like Google.

Another detail to take into account is to make sure that the web transmit encrypted data. The vast majority of browsers let us know by means of a padlock next to the address bar:

Safe site indicator in Chrome

Who is behind the web?

Another good way to have an indication of the reliability of a website is check its origin. Surely a website based in Spain, Germany or the United States gives you more confidence than one based in Botswana, the Cayman Islands or Hong Kong.

According to spanish lawwebsites has to indicate in its section of conditions the physical address. This can be from any country of the world, but obviously it is not the same as Germany, Spain or United Kingdom than in a country where even privacy regulations do not exist. If we add to this that the vast majority of websites have their profiles on social networks, it is somewhat easier to check their reliability.

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How do users rate it?

Sometimes we have to take out our spy side to check for ourselves if a website is safe. Whether searching the internet, through social networks or through word of mouth, it is another method to make sure of the security of a website. When someone does not get what they expect from a website, criticism on the Internet does not take long to appear. And on the internet, a bad opinion runs like wildfire.

As if that were not enough, there are also platforms dedicated to analyze online security, like the blogs of the cybersecurity firms or portals such as EstafaOnline, which even analyze online brokers and casinos to give more security to their users.

Perhaps in our day to day we do not stop to think about it, but given the immense size of the internet, we would have to be much more careful when entering any web page, especially when it does not sound like anything. If we talk about giants like Apple, Google or Amazon we hope a above-average reliabilitya, but when the site we are going to access does not ring a bell, doubts arise and problems begin.

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We hope that with these tips you can learn to correctly distinguish if a website is secure or, on the contrary, you should leave it immediately. It is known by all that absolute security does not exist, and less in the great world of the internet, but if we can protect ourselves from possible attacks or forgeries using common sense and a few easy tricks, better than better.


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