The Domain Name System (DNS) has been around for nearly 40 years, yet surprisingly few organizations understand what a critical security tool it can be. DNS can play many vital security roles on a ...

Cybercriminals today are targeting one of the internet’s least-protected utilities: the domain name system (DNS). Functioning as the internet’s phone book, DNS translates domains, like example.com, ...

In the year since last October’s high-profile attacks on the Internet’s root Domain Name System servers, improvements in load distribution and processing capacity have made the Internet’s core ...

For over two decades, Infoblox has been synonymous with domain name system (DNS) security, helping organisations in defending against attacks targeting the availability or stability of a network’s DNS ...

The world of IT security has become more sophisticated and complex; as threats have grown exponentially, they have also become more blended, obscure, and harder to remediate. Today, most organisations ...

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic ...

When there’s a vulnerability in a system library, we install updates, and go on with our lives. When there’s a vulnerability in a Java library, jars get rebuilt, and fixed builds slowly roll out. But ...

Paul Mockapetris invented the Internet’s core Domain Name System (DNS), which is a highly distributed hierarchical database that translates Web names into Internet Protocol addresses, and vice versa.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dan Kaminsky, who for years was ambivalent about securing DNS, has become an ardent supporter of DNS Security Extensions. Speaking at the Black Hat DC 2009 conference Thursday, the ...