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Question from (name withheld by request): I hope you can help me, Rick. Someone is sending me threatening emails, and it has me worried.
I’m pretty sure it’s my ex-boyfriend because he mentions things in the emails that only he should know about. The thing is, I don’t recognize the email address.
Is there any way to trace the IP address from the email headers and find out where the emails are being sent from?
Question from Maya: I just heard Wikipedia is going to start charging people a monthly fee if they want to keep using their website.
I use them a lot and it concerns me that they might start making me pay.
Are they really planning to start charging their users a fee? [Read more…]
As you probably know, hackers are breaking into web services and online accounts virtually every day.
And unfortunately, the methods they’re using to do it are getting ever more sophisticated all the time.
That’s why you need to do everything you can to lock down your own accounts as much as possible.
Have you ever received a message from a Facebook friend that reads something like this?
“I think you’ve been hacked. Someone using your account just posted a nasty message [or photo] on my Newsfeed! You need to change your password.”
I received a bunch of messages like this during the first year or so after I started using Facebook.
And I’m guessing you’ve received them too. [Read more…]
There might come a time when you’ll need to log in to your router’s control panel to change a setting (most likely the password for your Wi-Fi network).
But what happens if you can’t log in because you forgot the router’s username and/or password?
As luck would have it, it’s very easy to reset a router’s username and password back to its factory defaults. [Read more…]