Safe web browsing

Purpose

The traffic between your browser and a web server, including sensitive data, is readable if you fail to establish a secure connection first.

Website ads and content, including legitimate ones, can be compromised (or injected) with malicious code that puts your system at risk of infection.


Audience

faculty researchers Admin staff IT staff students


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Initial considerations

Some webpage functionality can be impacted through the use of an ad-blocker. If you encounter issues on a page you need to access and trust, try pausing the ad-blocker or granting an exception for the page, rather than disabling the blocker.

Ensure your system is protected from viruses and malware.


What can I do?

Set up HTTPS-only mode in your browser.

Chrome

Firefox

Safari

  • Enabled by default. No action required.

Other browsers

Install ad-blocking software (extension) for your browser.

Safari

Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera

Other browsers

Prevent tracking cookies (also known as third-party persistent or cross-site cookies)

When provided with a “cookie consent notification”, it is recommend that you accept only to essential cookies and decline optional cookies (sometimes referred to as statistic or marketing cookies).

Safari

Chrome

Edge

Firefox

Other browsers


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Additional help

General

Contact us | Information Security (IS)

Contact us | Information Technology (IT)

Researchers

Research Information Security - Information Security at University of Toronto


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