Sensitive Data
Information relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, trade union membership, health, sex life and criminal convictions.
Phishing: [phi] Phishing refers to the act of trying to gain sensitive data from a user by sending the individual an e-mail that requests an update to an account of a legitimate web-site (eBay, Amazon for example), i.e. a trusted source.
Unfortunately online criminality, too. If a sales website cannot put their visitors at ease about the security of their sensitive data, it will lose a lot of possible sales because they won't enter their credit card information.
HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure)
It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks, but has security features enabled to protect sensitive data.
security numbers and credit card numbers, are being passed along at point of purchase sites or bill pay sites. The hypertext transfer protocol secure gives assurance that hackers are not able to intercept the message containing sensitive data as ...
 See also: Data, Free, Internet, Website, Click
  
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