After a two hour DNS outage that crippled many internet services, Akamai is now reporting that it has found and fixed the problem. Akamai runs the Edge DNS service, and earlier on Thursday, the ...

A serious vulnerability named KeyTrap in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) feature could be exploited to deny internet access to applications for an extended period. Tracked as ...

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 ...

Internet Service Providers have been informing malware infected users for weeks. July 9, 2012 — -- When the clock struck 12:01 a.m. ET today the FBI pulled the plug on the temporary Internet ...

A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet. The action by the server’s operator, Netnod, appears to have resolved a ...

Makers of the software used to connect computers on the Internet collectively released software updates Tuesday to patch a serious bug in one of the Internet’s underlying protocols, the Domain Name ...

Because of its universality, DNS has become a natural enforcement layer for network policies, whether for security, ...

Earlier this year, the first DNS Flag Day was held as a coordinated effort by a group of developers of domain name system (DNS) server software and operators of DNS servers. It was aimed at making the ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

The IETF has standardized DNS over HTTPS (DOH), which encrypts DNS queries so eavesdroppers can’t tell what sites users connect to. Unauthorized interception of DNS traffic provides enough information ...

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 ...

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 ...