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Digital Safety Problem Solvers: 20 Free Tools to Protect Yourself Online

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A practical collection of free digital safety tools that help solve real online problems from checking data breaches and suspicious links to protecting passwords, detecting malware, improving privacy, and finding exposed personal information. I’ve ca...
 
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📩 Want to know if you’re exposed to new breaches? Mozilla Monitor checks known breaches and can continue monitoring your email addresses, with a free service available worldwide.
Mozilla Monitor
 
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🔗 Not sure whether a file, URL, or website is dangerous? VirusTotal lets you investigate suspicious files and links using results from many security engines.
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🌐 Want to investigate what a suspicious website actually does? URLScan renders the site in a controlled environment and shows information about its requests, resources, domain, and connections.
URL and website scanner
 
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🛡️ Wondering whether a website is known to be dangerous? Google Safe Browsing helps identify websites associated with malware, phishing, and other online threats.
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Got a suspicious phone call or message? Check a phone number against Malwarebytes’ threat-intelligence database to see whether it has been reported or associated with scam activity.
Scam Number Check Free Reverse Phone Lookup - Who Called Me?
 
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🧱 Want extra protection while browsing? This free browser extension can block ads, trackers, malware, scams, phishing attempts, and fake websites.
Malwarebytes Browser Guard
 
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🔑 Using the same password everywhere? Bitwarden provides a free password manager for creating, storing, and using stronger unique passwords instead of trying to remember them all. Its free plan remains available in 2026.
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🔑 Using the same password everywhere? Bitwarden provides a free password manager for creating, storing, and using stronger unique passwords instead of trying to remember them all. Its free plan remains available in 2026.
Bitwarden
 
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🔐 Need a simple way to protect your logins? Proton Pass stores passwords and other sensitive login information so you can use stronger, unique credentials across your accounts.
Proton Pass: Free password manager with identity protection
 
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🔒 Want stronger protection than a password alone? 2FAS is a free authenticator app for generating two-factor authentication codes when websites support 2FA.
2FAS
 
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👣 How identifiable is your browser? Cover Your Tracks helps you understand how trackers and browser characteristics can contribute to online tracking and fingerprinting.
Cover Your Tracks
 
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👣 How identifiable is your browser? Cover Your Tracks helps you understand how trackers and browser characteristics can contribute to online tracking and fingerprinting.
Cover Your Tracks
 
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🕵️ Tired of websites tracking you everywhere? Privacy Badger is a free browser extension from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Privacy Badger
 
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🚫 Want fewer malicious ads, trackers, and unwanted scripts? uBlock Origin is a free, open-source content blocker that can make everyday browsing cleaner and safer.
uBlock Origin
 
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🌐 Own a website and want to check its security configuration? SecurityHeaders analyzes HTTP security headers and highlights protections that may be missing or incorrectly configured.
Security Headers
 
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🔒 Want to check whether a website’s HTTPS setup is configured properly? SSL Labs provides a detailed analysis of a public SSL/TLS server configuration.
SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
 
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🦠 Think a website may have been hacked? SiteCheck can scan a public website for signs of malware, malicious code, and other security problems.
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🌍 Want to check how well a website follows modern internet standards? Internet.nl tests areas such as IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, and other important internet-security standards.
Test for modern Internet Standards like IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, DMARC, STARTTLS and DANE.
 
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📧 Want to protect your real email address when signing up for websites? SimpleLogin creates unique email aliases that forward messages to your real inbox, helping reduce spam and making it easier to disconnect from services that you no longer trust....
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Want extra protection against dangerous websites? Quad9 is a free, privacy-focused DNS service that helps block known malware, phishing, and other malicious domains across your devices.
Quad9