Dear VPN hacker, I searched for some VPN-related info and started checking service providers, but I’m concerned about something. A VPN provider can control my traffic and be informed about all my online activities, can’t it? How can I be 100% sure they are not tracking me? Another question...
Google has been getting weird lately. As an example, it now uses credit card information to enhance the performance of its own advertising system. Recently, it has started toying around with some personal pages, by taking the users’ personal details and then transferring them to...
If you care about your privacy in social media, all you have to do is pay $100 annually for a widget that will prevent others from viewing those your posts that might displease a prospective employer or turn your university application down. The aim of BrandYourself is to give you the necessary software that will...
Taxi Uber app’s new feature follows you for 5 minutes after you get out of the taxi, no matter if you continue using the app or not. It doesn’t mean, however, that you cannot get rid of this bothersome innovation. Suppose, you’re done with updating your app. What Uber does next is ask you...
Wi-Fi is omnipresent these days, and especially at homes. But its omnipresence doesn’t mean it works flawlessly all the time. The signal may be weak or lost altogether because of subtle factors you may not know about. This is why many Internet users keep asking, “How can I boost my WiFi?” So, what can...
Computer encryption is hot these days. No discussion about privacy or security online will be complete without encryption. Lots of startups and established companies offer tools that provide Internet encryption solutions allowing you to avoid tracking, hacking, phishing, and other Internet threats...
If you want to browse anonymously online, this is a tough quest. Not only big companies like Google and Microsoft, but also government agencies and regular hackers – all want to know what you’re doing online. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to shield oneself...
Everyone these days seems to be scared of Facebook phishing scams and other forms of this plague. One of the main types of malware, phishing reminds us of catching a fish in a river. What’s the point here? What is a phishing scam after all? A phishing/fishing hacker pretends to be someone else: your...
How do you retrieve passwords stored in Mozilla’s browser? Maybe you happened to ask Google “Help me find my password”? If you did, this piece is for you. Every modern browser these days has a password manager allowing you to save credentials you type on websites, like account passwords. So it’s quite easy to...
The Whoer.net Blog team is again with you! Today we are going to explain in very simple terms the notion of the MAC address and where you can find it. In our previous posts, we mostly talked about IP addresses which serve as unique identifiers of devices in the Internet. However, in the offline...
The world of information technology has a new hot trend: speed up routine operations. One of these operations is typing your username and password to access sites. All too often, we heard someone say, “I have forgotten my password.” Why? Because the password technology itself is very vulnerable...
Did you know that as you surf through the World Wide Web, you create a massive database of various sorts of data related to your Internet behavior? Very soon your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will be able to sell this data to third-party advertisers without your concern, at least in the US. Now they...
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