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Protect Your Email Address and Identity

Gravatar is a service that provides users with a profile image that can appear on many sites across the Net. It is integrated with WordPress.com (The version of WordPress hosted by Automattic) and is also integrated into WordPress.org, the self hosted version of...

Ransomware Scheme That Urges You To Infect Others

Internet Security, Netbits

Ransomware has been the biggest digital threat of 2016. It’s malicious software that encrypts important files on your gadget and holds them hostage until you pay a ransom. It’s so widespread, the FBI is asking victims to help track down the scammers. The...

Google Penalizing Pages With Intrusive Popup Ads

Netbits, Search

Google announced that it will begin penalizing pages with intrusive interstitials, commonly known as popup ads, beginning in 2017. The will be implemented as part of the search engine’s continual push for mobile accessibility. Two years ago, Google added a...

Find Your Router’s Password Fast Then Change It

Internet Usage, Netbits

It’s likely you forgot a critical step during your router’s installation: changing its default password. Maybe you’re thinking you don’t need to protect yourself with a password because no one lives nearby. So, who’s going to steal your...

Free Network Analyzer And Tool

Internet Usage, Netbits

Consider what is connected to your network. There is your computer, tablet, phone, and television, for starters. Add to this the surge in internet-connected you-name-its from cameras, light bulbs, refrigerators, to even slow cookers that come with an app. Your family...

Is Your Face In A Database?

Internet Usage, Netbits, Technology

If it is not, companies like FaceFirst.com are helping to make sure the technology is there to make easier for that to happen. It it is, new technology is making it easier for users to identify you, and even target you. Good or bad? Facial recognition has good...