When scanning a network, you can see IP addresses and MAC addresses of devices on that network. A primary rule is to never duplicate IP addresses to avoid creating conflicts. The same is true for MAC ...

A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...

Apple introduced a feature that would hide a user's permanent MAC address in 2020, but it's been virtually useless until iOS 17.1 thanks to a now patched vulnerability. When a device connects to a ...

One of the most significant but least talked about changes of iOS 5 was Apple's decision to deprecate the use of UDIDs. In this case study, US monetisation and promotion company W3i explains how it ...

Why do we need MAC addresses? I understand that we need them to communicate but why can't everything for the most part be done using the network layer address? I know we occasionally need MAC ...