How to Tell if a Site Has an SSL Certificate

nuralam · Post by **nuralam** » Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:56 am

Attacks represent one of the most insidious threats in the cybersecurity landscape: a true digital “conversation theft” where an attacker silently inserts himself between two parties who are communicating, intercepting, modifying and potentially manipulating the entire communication without the parties involved realizing it.

Imagine a middleman who listens to your every message, reads your every email, knows your every credential: this is exactly the scenario of a MITM attack. The hacker number in cambodia
strategically positions himself between the sender and the recipient, becoming a malicious bridge that can not only spy on, but even alter the data in transit.

There are many ways to do this: from using unprotected public WiFi networks to more sophisticated SSL/TLS connection interception techniques. The goal is always the same: stealing sensitive information, login credentials, financial data, or even injecting fraudulent content by modifying network packets.

The most frequent

victims? Users who use public and unprotected connections, companies with vulnerable network infrastructures, and anyone who does not adopt security measures such as VPN connections, end-to-end encryption protocols, and multi-factor authentication.

How to Tell if a Site Has an SSL Certificate
To understand if a site has an active certificate you canCheck for a padlock , which indicates “ the connection is secure ”, by clicking on the icon to the left of the URL.
Check the existence of the HTTPS protocol by clicking on the URL in the address bar.
How to get a free or paid SSL certificate?
There are different types of SSL certificates, starting from the free Let's Encrypt and then moving on to the paid SSLs, which ensure levels of guarantee. Shellrent, in addition to the free certificate, offers: