To understand why DNS failures can be so disruptive, it's helpful to know how the Domain Name System is constructed. The internet contains over 378 million registered domain names, far too many for a ...

One protocol betrays your entire browsing history. Once you fix it, you'll never feel safe without it again.

According to CISA, most cyberattacks, including ransomware and BEC, start with phishing. The losses companies are experiencing due to ransomware are exceeding billions annually. In response, ...

Dig is a powerful and flexible tool for interrogating domain name system (DNS) servers. In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into how it works and what it can tell you. Dig is a powerful and flexible ...

The economics of surveillance capitalism and a world of paranoid apps will transform the domain name system (DNS), says Geoff Huston, chief scientist at APNIC Labs, part of the Asia Pacific Network ...

Well-publicized attacks against Domain Name System (DNS) root servers and top-level domains highlight the vulnerability of the DNS infrastructure. Many CIOs are looking for ways to ensure secure, ...

The foundational Domain Name System, essentially the phone book for the internet, used to be something nobody using the net much noticed, but lately it has become more of a target, and the cost of ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

I don't typically delve into technical issues in this column, but this month I'm going to take a shallow dive because there's an important issue that I think government CIOs, especially state CIOs, ...

Domain Name System (DNS) servers translate human readable host or domain names to numeric IP addresses. Drexel IT Networking manages domain name servers used by the university. At start-up time, most ...