You think you’re anonymous online. You’re wrong. Every time you visit a website, send an email, or stream a video, you leave digital fingerprints. Your IP address acts like a return address on mail.

Online security threats grow daily. Hackers use fake IP addresses to hide their tracks. Now users can fight back with a new ...

A virtual private network, or VPN, provides privacy by hiding your public IP address and making it look like you’re in another city, state or even country. Using a VPN makes apps, websites or other ...

and it looks like a series of numbers and letters with a bit of punctuation thrown in. Every device connected to your router at home will have a local (or private) IP address, which helps the ...