Questions tagged [internet-security]
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How much information can websites get about your browser/PC?
I am trying to determine if the information shown on www.whatsmyip.org is the absolute maximum amount of information that a webserver can obtain from a web visitor. Are there other sites that will be ...
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Can a website know about my browsing history?
When I visit a website it sometimes puts cookies on my browser. Usually cookies keep track of browsing info from that particular site. If I don't delete those cookies and browse other websites, will ...
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How to disable internet connection only for some standard user accounts in Windows 7 Ultimate?
There are many users in my machine with Windows 7 Ultimate installed. Some of them are standard user accounts that have no administrative access to the computer. I want them to be unable to connect to ...
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Wireless network connection: Security Type: Unsecure
For some wireless network connections, Windows 7's connection choice menu shows a warning sign with text: information sent over this network might be visible to others. What does this mean? How risky ...
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found a bunch of DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot personal certificates installed on my system
I was looking at my personal certificates in Google Chrome and found a bunch of DO_NOT_TRUST_FiddlerRoot certs there. I don't know how these got there. Should I be concerned?
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Is my network infrastructure visible outside of my wireless router?
I have a wireless router which connects to the Internet. Do external sites and services know that I'm using a router and it is not a final PC?
For that matter can external services (and perhaps my ...
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Weird hits on port 2703
I'm getting these periodical console messages on my Mac:
7/22/11 8:01:03.925 AM Firewall: Stealth Mode connection attempt to UDP 10.0.0.1:2703 from 91.143.232.133:15881
7/22/11 8:01:05.885 AM ...
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Configuring Windows to only allow traffic through VPN
I would like to configure Windows 10 to only allow traffic through a VPN connection. For example, Firefox won't have internet access if the VPN is not connected. I want to be able to turn this ...
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Wifi password VS MACs filtering - in terms of speed vs security
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First I need to say that I know about how better it is to secure the wifi network even with WEP , than to not secure it at all, and I know there is a thread asking a similar question like ...
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