Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
WifiHistoryView is a brand new application by Nirsoft for Windows that lists all wireless connections the PC it us run on made in the past. The portable software program gets the information […]
Netflix announced yesterday that it launches it services globally yesterday offering it to more than 190 countries adding 130 new countries in the process. While that is still not all countries of […]
Ever since the Snowden relevations, privacy search engines and privacy in general has been a boom on the Internet. Search engines focused on privacy have seen a rise in daily searches. While […]
Oculus Rift, a VR solution, is now available for preorder for $599 on the official company website (pricing is €699 plus shipping for Euro countries, and £499 Pound). The VR solution ships […]
Win-S2K84IAC4V4, that's the default name of the Windows 10 system that I just set up. The name is not ideal for a variety of reasons but identification is probably at the top […]
Apart from giving its users more control over its features than any other web browser out there, another strength of Firefox is the browser's add-on system. Just like customization options provided by […]
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) extends a private network allowing users to connect to remote data centers, network resources, and to encrypt their communication. A simple way of thinking about VPNs is […]
The LastPass team has released the first big update of the popular online password manager since the acquisition of the company by LogMeIn. LastPass 4.0 has been released for all platforms the […]
Microsoft recently told the world that its new Windows 10 operating system was active on over 200 million devices, a fact that leaked a week earlier already. The company stated that Windows […]
File History is a security feature of the Windows operating system that backs up important files automatically when enabled so that they can be restored at a later point in time. The […]
NANY is an annual event over at the DonationCoder community website where members of the community pledge to develop applications for the new year. Considering that you have access to hundreds of […]
Rarely a day goes by without news of another vulnerability hitting an operating system, software, device, or service on the web. These reports have become part of everyone's online life and all […]
We released a privacy and security settings list for the Firefox web browser back in August 2015. That list, created by Ghacks reader Pants, has been updated regularly since then. The newest […]
Mozilla enabled the security feature W^X in Firefox Nightly (currently version 46) and plans to make it available to other versions of its web browser once they are upgraded to version 46. […]
The majority of web browsers are offered as 32-bit and 64-bit version nowadays, and it is up to the user to decide which version to run on the computer. This comparison guide […]
Mozilla plans to release the built-in Pocket integration of Firefox as a system add-on with Firefox 46. The organization made the decision to remove the native integration of certain features of the […]
WebKit-based browsers are a dominating force, especially in the mobile world where they are dominating the landscape but more and more also on the desktop. This should not be a problem compatibility-wise […]
Security company AVG, well known for its free and commercial security products that offer a wide range of security related safeguards and services, has put millions of Chrome users at risk recently […]
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