Lots of people are very curious about anything specially in the world wide web, curious that sometimes lead as to something bad or disaster
compromise your security for banks , and emails
First is accounts are being hack and leads to hacking of other accounts that is register to that email
HTTP: if you are just browsing on the site that is HTTP or hyper text transfer protocol - there is a possibility that you will be just fine , if the site is http and you never login anything or username and password, example is in the train if all in the train is British they can hear everything loud and clear since in the same language.
but if you are logging in the site using any credential that is a different story, there is probability of 80-90% you will be hack here is a figure below explain why
as you can see your username and password are expose, you if a hacker manages to get there your in for a roller coaster ride
Hackers are bombing those ports trying to pass through a level of security which is very easy for them,
How to make sure you are safe when logging in to banks, mails with important information?
HTTPS Hyper text transfer protocol
Secure everything runs in this are encrypted and no one can see the username and password,
example of this are if you were an engineer or an architect and there is two computer technician talking you don't understand their terms
but you can hear them in the figure below shows how HTTP and HTTPS are seen by the hacker
upload picAs you can see how important it is when you are logging to a certain site be sure its https not http
like bitcointalk we are https so we are sure that its safe
The image above shows that the password is hidden bitcointalk
upload imagesIm not saying that https sites are totally secure because hackers do have their ways and its up to the support of the site how they manages all the securities to make everything unhackble, but its better to use https than https, so the next time you need to login to a site make sure its https
specially banks and other sites that we visit, its better safe than never , hope this simple post helps everyone
Note: It does not mean that if the site is https you will simply login your credential make sure the address is correct, double checking is better because sometimes impostor sites are also a big problem, always look into small details for security purpose
thanks.