IP is short for Internet Protocol, which assigns an address for each Internet users, just like every mobile user is identified by a number.

IP是互联网协议的缩写，它分配给每个用户一个地址，就如每个手机用户是通过号码来识别的。

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The Internet Protocol defines an IP address as a 32-bit number.

互联网协议将IP地址定义为一个32位的编号。

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In retrospect the tipoff to the bank that something was awry was that the hackers used an Internet protocol, or IP, address that the Shames-Yeakels had never used before.

银行回顾这一偷盗过程时，发现蹊跷的地方在于，黑客使用了山姆斯·伊克尔一家从未使用过的因特网协议(又称IP)地址。

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The investigation could take weeks, but an initial finding linked a Chinese Internet Protocol address to one of the banks affected.

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In this case, Spamhaus's Domain Name System (DNS) servers were targeted - the infrastructure that joins domain names, such as bbc.co.uk, the website's numerical internet protocol address.

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Type in "Paypal.com, " for instance, and the DNS server owned by your broadband provider converts that name into the Internet Protocol address where the site is hosted.

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