IF YOU have ever bought anything online or used an Internet bank, you might have been running more of a risk than you bargained for. That’s the conclusion of a new report which found that one in five e-commerce websites claiming to be secure is actually vulnerable to hackers.
The study, carried out by Cambridge-based electronic security company N-cipher, examined 137,000 of the 140,000 websites purporting to use “strong” encryption to make either online transactions or remote access to company computers secure.
The report found that 19 per cent of them were using short encryption keys, which can…
