Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...

Open-source DNS tools can speed up your network, improve privacy and cut down on junk traffic. Here are 3 worth exploring.

Instead of broadcasting your Domain Name System requests in plaintext, DNS over HTTPS encrypts your requests so that they're ...

Microsoft is having a "Do'h!" moment, though not in the bumbling, Homer Simpson sense. Quite the opposite, actually. In a blog post, Microsoft announced its Windows Core Networking team is working on ...

Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of ...

ICANN and IBM's security researchers separately spell out how the growth of the internet of things will increase opportunities for malicious actors to attack the Domain Name System with hyperscale ...

A little discipline can solve domain name system (DNS) woes. The only requirement is name servers that allow proper configuration. Experts suggest: Limit recursion. Name servers do need to offer ...

Collecting and analyzing Passive DNS data can help identify malicious sites and combat phishing and malware; here’s how to get started Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed increasing attacks ...

A broadband provider's claim of superfast speeds may only be as good as its weakest link, which could be its domain name server software. A report issued Thursday by Nominum, a company that sells ...