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How to get rid of ads that follow you around the Internet
Posted on August 12, 2018 by pcwrt in How To, Security.You’ve had the experience. You looked at something on a shopping site, then that thing follows you all around the Internet. It feels creepy. Trust me, those companies take privacy very seriously – their privacy. You see, you looked at the pair of shoes you later bought. The shopping site knew that you looked at […]
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Block third party tracking cookies, does it work?
Posted on August 12, 2018 by pcwrt in How To, Security, Technology.People don’t like to be tracked around everywhere they go on the web. So all major browsers give you the option to “block third party cookies”. And there’s a DNT header that your browser sends on your behalf to nicely tell the tracking parties that you don’t want to be tracked. However, the big question […]
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Pause the Internet
Posted on August 10, 2018 by pcwrt in How To, Parental Control, Router.The pcWRT router allows you to pause the Internet in multiple ways. You can pause all devices with Access Control enabled, or only devices in a certain profile. You can pause while connected to your home network, or remotely through pcwrt.com. A single click on the pause button pauses the Internet for 30 minutes, each […]
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Are you building a surveillance network around your house?
Posted on August 9, 2018 by pcwrt in Security, Technology.And letting others spy on you? Smart TVs, security cameras, smart thermostats, smart plugs, smart doorbells, Alexa Echo, Google Home. All of these are capable of collecting data from your home (network traffic, connected devices, shared files, image, voice, video, etc.), and capable of sending data out to anywhere over the Internet, uninhibited. Earlier this […]
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How to use your router to block smart TV snooping
Posted on August 2, 2018 by pcwrt in How To, Router, Security.Today’s smart TVs collect a lot of information about you beyond your knowledge, sometimes without your consent. Last year, Vizio was fined $2.2 million for collecting user data wihout properly informing consumers. From FTC official statement: VIZIO smart TVs … capture second-by-second information about video displayed on the smart TV, including video from consumer cable, […]
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Turn off WiFi router automatically at night
Posted on July 22, 2018 by pcwrt in Router, WiFi.There are many reasons you want to switch off your WiFi at night. Some people worry about the prolonged exposure to EMF radiation during their sleeping hours. Others are concerned about the security risks of keeping it on all time. Still others believe that turning off your router at night extends its lifespan. After all, […]
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Fake one-star reviews on Amazon for the pcWRT router
Posted on July 7, 2018 by pcwrt in News, Router.For quite some time we were puzzled by the one-star reviews that were left on Amazon for our product. These were “Verified Purchase” reviews. Supposedly the customers purchased our product, were dissatisfied, then left a negative review. Strange enough, none of these customers reached out to us for support when they encountered problems. They just […]
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Spam email from legitimate business email servers
Posted on July 7, 2018 by pcwrt in Security, Technology.There’s a new trick to send spam: using legitimate business email services. Just a few days ago, I received an email from Honeywell. It was spam. I checked the sender address and the sending domain. It seemed to be sent from Honeywell indeed. So I wondered why Honeywell would spam me with something that’s completely […]
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Beyond Three Dumb Routers
Posted on June 20, 2018 by pcwrt in Router, Security, Technology.To mitigate the risks of IoT devices on your home network, Steve Gibson, the creator of ShieldsUP!, proposed a “Three Dumb Router” configuration to isolate the insecure IoT devices from your normal LAN, where the more valuable and more secure devices such as PCs and NAS storage reside. Since the devices stay in their own […]
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How to get rid of VPNFilter malware (even though you don’t know if your router is infected)
Posted on June 6, 2018 by pcwrt in Router, Security, Technology.Ars Technica reported today that the VPNFilter malware targets a much larger number of devices than previously thought (200,000 additional routers were added to the initial estimate of 500,000). And it is more powerful than revealed in original analysis. VPNFilter’s elaborate design involves three stages. Stage 1 acts as a backdoor that uses a sophisticated […]
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