After engaging in a recent rash of attacks in retaliation for the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, the Anonymous denial of service “cannons” have been firing considerably fewer shells of late ...

DNSFilter, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of DNS content filtering and threat protection solutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million series A funding round led by investment firm ...

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 ...

Every time a query is made to a website, the request goes to the Domain Name System (DNS) which converts the alphabetic name into the server's numeric IP address. For example, when you type the name ...

IT admins have the thankless task of having to watchdog devices, hosts, and networks for signs of malicious activity. Host intrusion detection and endpoint protection may be “must have” security ...

Few recent Internet threats have made such a big impact as security researcher Dan Kaminsky's discovery, in 2008, of fundamental flaws in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol that can be used by ...

Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes in internet privacy that many don’t know even exists. Dubbed Oblivious ...

Your internal DNS servers are behind a NAT router which is configured to rewrite incoming DNS responses such that responses that contain an external IP address that maps to an internal address are ...

Celebrated author/Infoblox technologist Cricket Liu explains how to prevent DNS-based DDoS attacks -- and avoid being an unwitting accomplice to one When it comes to DNS, Cricket Liu literally wrote ...

A Mullvad VPN user has discovered that Android devices leak DNS queries when switching VPN servers even though the "Always-on VPN" feature was enabled with the "Block connections without VPN" option. ...