After reading my article on stolen IP addresses, Natalya Kuznet asked if someone could steal your mobile IP address. I very much doubt that anyone would even try to steal your mobile IP address, for ...

The problem with putting nomadic devices on to the Internet is that the Internet is designed to route packets hierarchically. The Mobile IP protocol was created to address this issue directly. Network ...

In the previous sections, we looked at how move detection and Mobile IP handover policy initiate a Mobile IP handover. Before we look at the messaging that performs a Mobile IP handover, we look at ...

An Internet Protocol address is a number that identifies a device in a network, though the term is often used to refer to a device on the Internet itself. An IP address is vital for transferring data ...

The internet relies on a system of addresses that treats every computer, tablet and smartphone as a distinct device, allowing all of them to communicate with each other. Because many kinds of devices ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

There is a lot of gray area within the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But there's something that's black and white and, frankly, WRONG: An IP address should not be considered personal data ...

Online raiders are stealing IP addresses and converting them to cash by selling them to so-called proxyware services. Malicious actors are planting proxyware on computers without the owner’s knowledge ...

Your IP address is something you usually don't need to think about—in fact you might never have heard of it before—but it's an important little piece of information attached to every device on your ...

You can use these techniques, such as a VPN or proxy server, to quickly and easily change your IP address. Moe enjoys making technical content digestible and fun. As a writer and editor for over a ...

Before we start putting together the pieces of the Mobile IP puzzle, we should take a closer look at the big picture. Given the components of the Mobile IP solution, how do they all work together?