Typically there is no reason to change the MAC address of a computer’s network adapter. Reasons may be because of technical problems with the current MAC address, hard coded MAC address support of services or devices, or to change the MAC address to make identification difficult. Previously reviewed software MAC Makeup had a lot to [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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The web attack that leads hackers straight to your home
Is it possible, is there such a thing as an attack that can tell a hacker where you live? The BBC has revealed that a specially booby-trapped website can tell a hacker where you are to only a few metres. The attack was dreamt up by security expert Sam Kamkar who demonstrated at the Black [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Change your MAC address in Linux with MACchanger-GTK
The MAC address is a very important string of characters that your computer depends upon in order to be networked. MAC stands for Media Access Control and represents the true address of a machine on a LAN. The MAC address of an ethernet device is a 6-byte number that is expressed as a 12 digit hexadecimal [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mac Address Changer
Rarst ran a little review of the MAC address changing software program Mac MakeUp today. If you have not checked out his website you might wanna do so as he constantly covers interesting tools and services there. Back to the software program. Mac MakeUp is a portable software for the Windows operating system that can [...]