A fake PayPal website (lower one) has been used for phishing recently. Hackers not only duplicated the official website (upper one) but also invested on SSL certificate, i.e. encrypted HTTPS website, to enhance its authenticity and credibility.
 
How Does “Secure” Phishing Website Work?
Google Chrome & FireFox mark all non-encrypted websites (HTTP) as “Not Secure” while encrypted websites (HTTPS) as “Secure” with green-padlock symbol in the address bar to help users identify a more secured data transmission process.

Hackers registered a domain name started with “PayPal.com”. In fact, its URL is very long. If users access the website by mobile, the address bar is too short to display the full URL but the first part of the website. In addition, address bar displayed the green-padlock symbol with “Secure” stamp, users assumed the website is completely safe and handled over their personal data or credit card information.

Expert reiterated that the HTTPS-secured browsing guarantees an encrypted data transmission between the server and end-point users. However, it cannot ensure the website content or use of the site is safe!

TIPS:
1) Distinguish Fake & Official Websites
In the above PayPal example, the official website (upper one) adopted the highest class Extended Validation Certificate (EV SSL Cert) ,which requires additional verifying process by a third-party, displays the green-padlock symbol and the company/ organization name (i.e.“PayPal, Inc. [US]”) in the address bar.
 
2) Stay Alert
Do not open or click strange e-mail, attachments, online advertising or links.
 
3) Domain Name
Check the full domain name on the address bar. Generally, company or brand name will be shown on domain name precisely.
 
BONUS TIPS:

• Register your company & brand name related domain names, e.g. ABC.com / ABC.com.hk/ ABC.hk etc.
• Apply the highest class EV SSL Certificate to identify your official site.

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When talking about the network connection between China and Hong Kong, those negative terms such as ‘Slow’, ‘Network congestion’, ‘Loading’ will probably come to your mind. If you had some bad experiences like these, CN2 (ChinaNet Next Carrying Network) of China Telecom is here to help.
 
Among the 8 Telecom operators in China, China Telecom is the key provider of Global network. With the 2 sets of International networks, ChinaNet and CN2, they served over 80% of users in China. The former one, ChinaNet, was one of the earliest Internet networks that focused on the residential customers, while the CN2 is the next generation network that dedicated for the business users. By connecting to it, China Telecom provides Internet telecom services to customers worldwide with differentiated, scalable bandwidth and excellent connectivity.  
Advantages:
1) High Priority: The CN2 Network is well designed to adapt to the QoS (Quality of Service) measure of China. With CN2, it seems like a VIP pass which is unimpeded even in the peak hours.
2) High Stability: High redundancy, even either one line breaks down, it will change to back up lines intelligently and services availability ratio reaches 99.99%.
3) Light Loading: In order to maintain services stability, the usage is not more than 50% of the whole network utilization. So, the Packet loss rates are low and the speeds are stable.
4) Worldwide Coverage: More than 200 Pops including all China's cities and major cities worldwide that makes the fast connection possible, for example, the latency from Hong Kong to China is lower than 50ms. 

For current development trend, CN2 will probably become popular among the mainland enterprises, it gradually been opening to Hong Kong companies, is also a good news for users.  
 
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