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 ...

Hardening your home network is crucial to safeguarding your devices from the constant scourge of malware. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to bolster the defenses of your systems, ranging from VPNs ...

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 ...

DNS (Domain Name System) settings in Windows help your computer translate website names into IP addresses. However, many of us tend to use a third-party DNS, such as Google Public DNS, as it is often ...

As many as 64,000 Americans’ computers may still be affected by malware that will cause them to lose Internet service come Monday, so if you haven’t already, make sure you aren’t among them. There’s ...

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, ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

If you're having problems Web surfing, you may have a DNS problem. Here are quick ways to fix it. As I’ve shown you in there are a number of way you can hack Domain Name System to speed up the way you ...

Update: A US Federal Court extended the deadline for shutting down the replacement DNS servers to July 9, 2012. On Wednesday, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) published a press ...

Figuring out what's wrong with DNS will go faster if you have a set of troubleshooting steps to follow. Brien Posey shares his approach to isolating the cause of DNS problems. DNS is one of the most ...