Everything can be done online in these days. You can order pizza, get several interviews in the same day, a new date whenever you want, managing your bank account and even apply for a new credit card online. Every expense in life can be paid online too.
An online credit card application is generally the same as its paper based counterpart. You are required to provide current information about yourself and submit the form. For many people the prospect of putting everything online creates a situation ripe for identity theft.
The first thing that you need to know to prevent security issues, is making sure that whenever you browse the site of the card provider or any other site where financial transaction is involved, a https appears in your browser’s address bar and not a regular http. A secure website will always have a https. A secure site encodes any information you entered and decodes it upon arrival at the site server, thus any information picked up along the way by any other party will be useless.