A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...

Apple introduced a feature that would hide a user's permanent MAC address in 2020, but it's been virtually useless until iOS 17.1 thanks to a now patched vulnerability. When a device connects to a ...

Why do we need MAC addresses? I understand that we need them to communicate but why can't everything for the most part be done using the network layer address? I know we occasionally need MAC ...

iOS 14 introduced a “private Wi-Fi address” feature that claimed to hide your MAC address and share a different identifier when you connect to Wi-Fi. However, security researchers discovered that the ...