News channel of Turkey’s official public broadcaster TRT TRT news, made a major mistake today. In fact, the TRT News reporter provided information about the issues that users can do to ensure their safety in the digital environment, but unfortunately the information was in the news it wasn’t true. As a Webtekno team, whose focus is on technology, we thought we should fix this mistake.

Before we go into details, let’s share this information. Our goal here is to cheer on the TRT News team not to aim. However, if the information in the relevant news is incorrect, it can lead to misleading users and endangering their safety in the digital world. Now let’s first look at what is said in the news in question, and then Why is it wrong? let’s see.

Here is the erroneous news shared on TRT Haber:

As you can see above, the reporter said they were scammers phishing tactics It provides information about. Nothing wrong with it so far. However, here are sites with the extension “http”. insecureSites with the extension “https” are said to be safe. According to the news, a single letter is enough to detect fraudsters and protect yourself. This is exactly what’s wrong with the news. We’re sorry, but the “single letter” in the news will protect you from scammers. will not protect.

The difference between HTTP and HTTPS is as follows:

Http and https ensure communication between the user and the website. its protocols. They actually have a very similar structure, but there is an important difference between the two. This difference”encryption“. When you connect to a website with http protocol, there is a data transfer link. no encryption. However, this situation changes when you connect to a site with an https extension. Data transfer between sites using the HTTPS protocol and the user, is encrypted. This means that the data you send to the server is not visible to third parties. That is why https is more secure and Google is already forcing websites to switch to the https protocol.

There is no such thing as scammers opening websites that only use the http protocol!

Http is not a preferred protocol on current websites. Because this protocol is now used by internet browsers. not considered safe. If you try to log in to a website using the http protocol, the Internet browser you are using will warn you and want to deny you access to the site. So if it’s an imposter If he doesn’t want to give himself away It doesn’t design a site with the http extension anyway. We are sure there are very few people who do this. Therefore, there is absolutely no such thing as fake, imitation or data-stealing websites that use http.

So how can you detect a website opened for phishing purposes?

The easiest thing to understand that a website is fake is that the site is actually fake. at the link address reserved. Let’s look at an example: our website is “https://www.webtekno.com”. A fraudster could open a site like “https://www.webtekno.net” using our name. It is also possible to multiply these examples. An address like “https://www.vebtekno.com” is an address for many of us you might miss. Various extensions such as .net and .co are probably already used on popular websites. However, a small letter in between can be the key to understanding that you are on a fake site.

The same applies to messages sent for fraudulent purposes. Also applies to emails. Let’s say it looks like you’ve received an email from a very popular e-commerce platform. The easiest way to find out if this is real is to investigate the address that sent the email. If you are being targeted by fraudsters, you can be sure that an extremely meaningless address has been used.