My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

The F-Secure Router Checker is a free and instant way to see if your router has potentially been hijacked by criminals. When you type www.thewindowsclub.com in your browser address bar, your computer ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS benchmark tool to find the fastest for you. Consider DNS providers like Google, ...

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

DNS Hijacking is a major issue in the connected world. Every unique instance you type an address into your address bar your internet-connected device makes a request to a DNS server to get the actual ...

Conducting a web search? The Domain Name System converts website names into IP addresses so your computer can understand the query. Here's what that means. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than ...

The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is currently the talk of the town, and the Firefox browser is the only one to support it. However, the feature is not enabled by default for Firefox users, who will ...