The DHS and CISA booth at the 2019 RSA conference in San Francisco. (Scoop News Group photo) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to limit ransomeware, phishing, botnet and ...

Cloudflare has introduced a new DNS resolver, which is both named and situated at 1.1.1.1, that may go further than any other towards keeping users’ web browsing data private. Better still, its ...

DNS resolvers play a key role in converting Web links to IP addresses, acting as a link between your computer and the Internet's DNS infrastructure. A DNS resolver is a local server that stores a ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. The internet is a dangerous place. There are websites that will happily deliver you malware, or display violent or sexual imagery after your child ...

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 ...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors' DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access ...

An important fight is brewing over the nuts and bolts of the Internet that has significant implications for the privacy and security of all Internet users. The fight has already pitted Google and ...

All internet users rely on something called the Domain Name System (DNS). Recursive DNS resolvers are the phone books of the internet. Every user interacts with a DNS resolver, which translates URLs ...

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Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...