What you can do with an IP address, and how to protect yours from hackers

With someone's IP address, you can learn a user's general location, and disable some parts of their internet browsing ...
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Here's What a Hacker Can Really Do With Your IP Address

Revealing your IP can lead to location exposure but not precise pinpointing. Hackers use IP spoofing to conduct undetected attacks by masking their own identity. IP address resale on the dark web ...
TechCrunch

Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts

The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them. Denis Simonov, a security researcher, who is also known as ...
Hackaday

Hacking An IP Camera To Run Your Own Software

Ah, generic unbranded IP cameras. Safe, secure? Probably not. [Alex] has been hacking around with one of his very own, and he’s recently busted the thing wide open. Determining that the camera had a ...
Computerworld

Palin hacker’s IP address linked to Tenn. student’s apartment

The man who traced the IP address of the hacker who accessed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail account last week confirmed today that it belongs to an Illinois company that provides Internet service to ...