The Domain Name System (DNS) has been around for nearly 40 years, yet surprisingly few organizations understand what a critical security tool it can be. DNS can play many vital security roles on a ...

Cybercriminals today are targeting one of the internet’s least-protected utilities: the domain name system (DNS). Functioning as the internet’s phone book, DNS translates domains, like example.com, ...

For over two decades, Infoblox has been synonymous with domain name system (DNS) security, helping organisations in defending against attacks targeting the availability or stability of a network’s DNS ...

Domain Name System (DNS) security was hot this week, with the much-anticipated DNSSEC technology for locking down domain servers getting both the nod from a major ISP and passed over by a DNS service ...

Paul Mockapetris invented the Internet’s core Domain Name System (DNS), which is a highly distributed hierarchical database that translates Web names into Internet Protocol addresses, and vice versa.

The DNS (Domain Name System), sometimes referred to as the “phonebook for the internet,” was first created back in 1983 and has been a critical foundation of the modern internet ever since. In ...

Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software are scrambling to fix a problem that can ...

If you are new to DNS server knowledge, you probably didn’t know that you can change the DNS servers you use when browsing the internet. You might want to do this for a variety of reasons, including ...

Are DNS problems dragging down the performance of your network? That’s what happened to the state of Maine, which was suffering from constant outages caused by a flaky DNS system. Here’s how Maine’s ...

Some firewall software undoes a feature that was introduced in the DNS patches and could make it easier for attackers to pull off a cache-poisoning attack against the DNS server Nearly a month after a ...