Systems and methods for authenticating web displays with a user-recognizable indicia

A client browser for providing a user indicia in web pages served by multiple independent web sites, comprising:

• a user indicia generator, implemented by the client browser on a processing device, configured to:
• receive web pages having a security box identifier from multiple web servers,
• identify the presence of a security box identifier in the received web pages,
• insert a user indicia into the received web pages prior to entry of a user ID when the security identifier box is identified, and
• output modified web pages including for display, wherein the user indicia is independent of the one or more web sites and whereby a user of the client browser can recognize the user indicia in the display when interacting with the displayed modified web pages in different sessions across the multiple web sites.

A method for providing a user indicia for display on client browsers in web pages served across one or more independent web sites, comprising the steps of:

• receiving a web page having a security box identifier at a client browser;
• identifying, at the client browser the presence of a security box identifier in the received web page;
• inserting, at the client browser, a user indicia into the received web page when the security box identifier is identified, wherein the user indicia is independent of the one or more independent web sites;
• and
• displaying a modified web page including the user indicia prior to entry of a user ID, whereby a user of a client browser can recognize the user indicia in the display when interacting with the displayed modified web page in a web transaction.