Enjoy safe online shopping this holiday season

Online shopping! It’s so easy, right?  

Here are a few online shopping tips to help you shop safely online this holiday season.

(Zone Alarm, 2014)

The editors at Zone Alarm's Security Blog posted “Stay Safe This Shopping Season with These Security Tips” on Nov. 19 (graphic right).

Here's a short list of sites with suggestions for safe online shopping:

• StaySafeOnline.org 
• SafeShopping.org 
• PrivacyRights.org  
• PC Magazine   
• Microsoft  
• McAfee  

Then, dive deeper into the subject by reading:

   “Scams, Safe Shopping, and Online Banking” (pp. 57-74) in Net Crimes & Misdemeanors:Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online (Hitchcock, Jayne A. and Loraine Page, Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2002) 

   Or,

“Online Shopping” (pp. 181-192) in our eBook Computer Security Literacy: Staying Safe in a Digital World (Jacobson, Douglas and Joseph Idziorek, Hoboken: CRC Press, 2012)   

All of which is simply to say: “Hey, let's be careful out there” (Sergeant Phil Esterhaus, Hill Street Blues TV series, 1981-1987).

--Sandy Hawes, Online Services Librarian