Recognising Secure Websites

Hi, I just had a question about how to recognise secure websites. I just received an advisory from Citibank explaining that secure sites will be preceded by https:// and that in IE there would appear a padlock in the URL box. Also, the URL box would be highlighted in green for secure sites and red for insecure sites. In checking my regular websites (BBC, ESPN, FB, etc), I find that all of them are http:// not https://. Is that potentially a problem? And does Safari have a way of indicating what type of site you're visiting? I checked in Safari preferences and I don't find anything under the security tab. Just a last question, out of curiosity, what defines http sites as opposed to https sites? Cheers.

its very simple
the whole thing is if the url has https it is more secure as it uses tunneling, .501 certificate.
(https is used for account maintenance or sites which you are giving passwords, banking eg.Citibank and secure things)
while http is used for normal websites and nothing is wrong with it
and the one thing you have to consider is that the websites you are entering passwords or banking should be https. if not, dont enter passwords. your fb wall may be http. but when you enter the sign in page, you have to notice that if the website should be https.

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