Although we use easy-to-remember web addresses, the internet actually operates on a system of IP addresses and remote servers. Behind the scenes, it hinges on the Domain Name System (DNS), which ...

The DNS protocol was designed in the earliest days of the internet to allow names to be used instead of IP addresses, like techtarget.com instead of 172.30.128.56. Unfortunately, security features ...

Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are both separately advocating the move to a new encrypted internet protocol called DNS over HTTPS aimed at improving cybersecurity on the web. But internet ...

Ad-blocker company AdGuard has deployed on Wednesday the world's first-ever DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) resolver into a production environment as part of the company's Android and iOS applications. AdGuard's ...

Dynamic Name System (DNS) is one of the basic plumbing operations that makes the Internet work. It takes words that people understand and translates them into numeric IP addresses that the Internet ...

Apple and Cloudflare have teamed up to create a new DNS protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, or ODoH (via TechCrunch). The goal is to make it more difficult for ISPs to snoop on your web browsing ...

Malware authors are using a new technique to keep their communications covert and evade detection: abusing the DNS protocol. According to Fidelis Security, DNS command and control (C&C) and DNS ...

DNS is a heavily used protocol on the Internet yet has numerous security considerations. This paper whilst containing nothing new on DNS security brings together in one document many strands of DNS ...

The Domain Name Service is what I call a “dense” protocol. I call it dense because there is so much to DNS that it has resulted in many books being written solely on DNS, what it is, and what it does.

The DNS protocol was designed in the earliest days of the internet to allow names to be used instead of IP addresses, like techtarget.com instead of 172.30.128.56. Unfortunately, security features ...