Many of us use the internet for our online banking. It is often quite quick and easy to log in and view your balance, make transactions and even apply for increases in your overdraft for example. But often we do worry about how safe this really is.

The banks are constantly trying to improve the banking systems and security is the area that they invest the most amount of money in to. This being said there are things that we can do from our end to try and not let ourselves become a victim of internet bank fraud.

Making sure that any device you use for internet banking has a good anti virus software package is essential. This is the first way to stop unwanted visitors accessing our details. Ensuring that all passwords are unique and confidential is also a must and changing them from time to time is recommended. Ideally you should not carry out internet banking on an unsecure connection as your details may be able to be accessed by someone else on the network and many banks have now stopped apps working on this type of connection.