If you bank online check out this article.
Yahoo: Study: Online banking possibly dicier than assumed
University of Michigan researchers...found design flaws in 76 percent of the 214 U.S. financial institution Web sites they studied.
One of the biggest problems: Even if the login boxes on banks' pages are properly secured — meaning they send and receive encrypted data through a technology known as Secure Sockets Layer — if the full page itself isn't protected with the same technology, it's more difficult to tell whether the site is real or fake.
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