Types of IP Addresses Every Cybersecurity Learner Should Know

As a cybersecurity learner, understanding IP addresses is crucial for securing networks, identifying potential threats, and properly managing devices. IP addresses serve as unique identifiers for devices on a network and help to route data to the correct destination.

Ever wondered how devices seamlessly communicate across the digital world?

Learn about IPv4 vs. IPv6, the magic of subnet masks, and how CIDR notation keeps networks organized and optimized.

Read the blog post here: https://woodruff.dev/decoding-ip-addressing-and-subnetting-the-backbone-of-networking/

Some of my early experiences in Software dev was working for a ISP and a cisco training company. so i've picked up a bit experience with networking.

With this news of the spicy hub site blocking Florida starting next year. Im curious, technically how they go about that? Are they using a service like MaxMind's GeoIP databases? Or is there some other method for ensuring a IP is actually used in a specific state. Is there a more accurate resource?

It's amazing what a $900K/day fine can do
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New #software allowed the app to use constantly changing identifying #IPAddresses via a service called #Cloudflare, making it harder to block.

#ABRINT said Thursday #that X had now stopped using Cloudflare. #ElonMusk #SocialMedia

After court order, X goes offline again in #Brazil
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-judge-orders-x-reimpose-143012497.html

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

Researchers have devised an att... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2022250 #virtualprivatenetworks #ipaddresses #encryption #security #biz⁢ #vpns

summarized here: https://www.eke.li/2023/02/domains-in-docs/

when writing #technicalDocumentation - don't use real #urls or #ipAddresses. you never know what will grab those and use them.

there are reserved #domains and #ipRanges for just this!

for #url: the top-level-domains
.test, .example, .invalid and .localhost and the domain example.com are reserved

for ip-adresses the blocks 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24 and 203.0.113.0/24 are reserved

they are always safe to use in #documentation