I have been a generally quite happy user of eBay, the world's most famous online auction site, for nearly 20 years. Happy that is until I found out it was probing my computer when I opened the site in ...

A recent update to an ad block filter list now allows the uBlock Origin extension to block most of the known sites that perform port scans of your local Windows computer. A few weeks ago, we reported ...

In normal language, a port is where ships anchor/dock and planes land. They then proceed with their journey as per schedule. In Information Technology lingo, ports are hardware and software (called ...