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 ...

When you surf the Internet, you refer to computers and websites by their domain name, such as "google.com." The Internet, however, uses IP addresses to route traffic. Every time you type a domain name ...

Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of ...

Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) has bulked-up its Domain Name System (DNS) security software with new features including AI-enhanced DNS tunneling mitigation and stronger cloud malware detection. Cisco Secure ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. It doesn’t normally get a lot of attention, but the DNS ...

I ensure that my home lab has clients on my internal network, which are responsive and not exposed externally.

Companies should focus on securing their networks and educating workers on "safe surfing" habits, to minimize possible security leaks from users switching to Google's public DNS, advised an analyst.

Companies that haven't applied the workarounds for the Microsoft DNS server flaw yet need to make it their top priority. This is NOT something that can wait for a planned weekly or monthly outage; the ...