It is possible for hackers to trick you by using IP snooping, but you can get protection with a Dynamic IP address or a Static IP address. The question is, which one is better? This is not an easy ...

I serve as a one-man IT department for my family business, and I don’t have the time to learn (much less understand) all of the intricacies of networking. In spite of this deficiency, though, I’ve ...

In a key decision, the European Court of Justice has ruled that dynamic IP addresses may qualify as personal data in certain circumstances—ending years of uncertainty about whether such fundamental ...

Last month, one of the Advocate Generals (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, issued an opinion suggesting that dynamic IP addresses should be ...

A temporary numeric identification assigned to a node in a TCP/IP network. When a computer, smartphone, tablet, printer, scanner, TV or any other network-connected device is turned on for the first ...

Whether or not IP addresses, a type of online identifier, are classified as personal data has been the subject of considerable debate, the Mason Hayes & Curran Technology team writes. In May 2016, an ...

Europe’s top court has ruled that dynamic IP addresses can constitute “personal data,” just like static IP addresses, affording them some protection under EU law against being collected and stored by ...

IP addresses are like opinions… everyone has one. But not every IP address is created equal. Some IP addresses are dynamic, which means they automatically change, based on router settings. Also: ...

My server (Windows 2000) is running DHCP (No separate hardware router for the Internet connection sharing). When my workstation is running Windows 2000, it is assigned a "dynamic" IP address. The IP ...

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