How to Shop Online Safely?

BitWings
6 min readFeb 10, 2021

Online shopping has taken on much more force in the wake of the pandemic, but it has continued to generate distrust in many who feel their personal and banking information is too exposed.

Therefore, today we will talk about some recommendations for you to make a secure online payment. We will show you a list of the most recognized e-commerce; in them, the risk of being a victim of cyber theft is really low.

We know that currently everything is handled from the cell phone, so let’s see some recommendations that you should follow before going to the shopping cart of any electronic commerce and the best equipment to protect your information.

A cell phone for safe online shopping

As cyber attacks have increased, we want you to meet the Wings Mobile W4 and W7, the ideal devices to protect sensitive data such as credit card numbers and bank passwords. Why?

These phones have eight native services, but today we will talk about the three most relevant to make a secure online payment, they are the Wings Play Store, Secure Call and Guardian.

  • Wings Play Store : this application store guarantees complete privacy of the apps that are installed and the transactions you carry out. How? Well, in the Google and Apple marketplaces, you must register with an email to access these services and download apps, in addition, all this activity is traceable and cybercriminals can steal your data. For its part, the Wings Play Store is anonymous and does not require the use of emails or phones to download the apps you want.
  • Secure Call : provides triple level of security (TLS, ZRTP and ICE TECHNOLOGY in P2P networks) in encrypted calls, in this way, if they call you from banks to confirm data, there is no way that third parties can access the conversation to steal information.

What does each level consist of?

  • TLS: Translates Transport Layer Security, it is a cryptographic protocol with which protection is guaranteed in Internet communications.
  • ZRTP: or key agreement protocol, which uses an algorithm called Diffie-Hellman, with which temporary keys are created used to encrypt the information flow, in this way, not even Wings Mobile…

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