Spoofing the source IP address forces an unwilling service to send its replies to the victim under attack. But there’s no practical reason to allow spoofed traffic on the internet.

This isn't really needed as the router will get the IP when it hooks up to the cable service.<P>B)For my Linksys BEFSR11, it will spoof the MAC address of the NIC that I set up my cable service with.

The Supreme Court of Canada made a key privacy ruling Friday that means police must now first have a warrant or court order to obtain the numbers making up a person or organization's IP address.

In late January, traffic to many IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of the U.S. Marine Corps was temporarily diverted through an ISP in Venezuela.

If you are having trouble using your VPN because your HTML5 geolocation doesn’t match your IP address, you will be happy to know that Chrome lets you set up a fake location using developer tools.

Hit an enterprise or gaming server or go after a service provider – right down to a specific subscriber. And IP-address spoofing can make that attack appear to originate from legitimate sites.

An example of a MAC address is 1F-2E-3D-4C-5B-6A and it falls into the Layer 2 networking protocol of the OSI model. In today’s networks, ARP, or Address Resolution Protocol converts a MAC address to ...