The Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacking group, altered the DNS records used by the New York Times, Twitter, and the Huffington Post. The changes forced one site offline and caused problems for ...

A smart DNS service can complement -- or even replace -- a VPN for streaming. Here’s how the two are alike and how they differ.

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 ...

Domain name system (DNS) attacks, in which bad actors take advantage of vulnerabilities in the DNS Internet protocol, are extremely prolific—and costly. The role of DNS is to translate the term that ...

Every time your iPhone reaches for a website, it quietly asks a Domain Name System server to translate a name like example.com into a numeric address. In most cases those DNS lookups travel in the ...