With attacks on root name servers and the controversy over VeriSign’s Site Finder service, DNS has been in the news lately – but many people don’t realize that individual organizations generally ...

It is rumored that China has recently created its own top-level domain root servers for .cn, .com and .net extensions, ostensibly in order to avoid having to "surf the Web via the servers under the ...

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a ...

Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet’s Domain Name System architecture, has some advice for those in any doubt about the seriousness of a weakness in the DNS protocol that was disclosed ...

Domain Name System (DNS) servers translate human readable host or domain names to numeric IP addresses. Drexel IT Networking manages domain name servers used by the university. At start-up time, most ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

Every networked computer uses a complex system of addresses and protocols to communicate. There are times when these services fail, and it might be appropriate to consider a preferred and alternate ...

The hijacking of domain names belonging to Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid and several other crypto sites has been attributed to hackers tricking GoDaddy Inc. employees into handing ...