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PPC Land
April 16, 2018
The DNS is the service that translates a domain name into an IP address where a website is hosted. Users can set up a specific DNS on the settings of their connection (on mobile phones, tablets, laptops, etc). Here how to set up the DNS. When a DNS Server resolves a domain name, a query travels fromÃÂ ...
Tom's Guide
April 13, 2018
A couple of notes up front, though: Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS can also be used for encrypted DNS resolution that keeps your ISP from seeing where you go on the internet. Setting that up is immensely complicated, and running it will probably slow down your DNS queries, but if you're a veteran with the LinuxÃÂ ...
Techworld Australia
April 12, 2018
Like the internet itself, the directory is distributed around the world, stored on domain name servers that all communicate with each other on a very regular basis to provide updates and ... The request then goes to the Domain Name Server, which holds the information about the site and its IP address.
TechRepublic
April 11, 2018
Those personal details are transmitted in plain text, making intercepting it easy. Internet users also need to have faith in the security of their DNS provider—all the information transmitted can be stored, creating a total profile of the internet use coming from your IP address, or even your particular computer.
Houston Chronicle
April 11, 2018
DNS, as it's more commonly known, is the essentially the contact list for the internet. Just as you tap on a name in your smartphone's contact list and it dials the number without you needing to know that number, the DNS system converts the name of an internet domain or website into its numeric address.
The Register
April 10, 2018
In other words, whether you use your ISP's resolver, or one provided by a third party like Google or Cloudflare, at some point you have to trust the resolver with your DNS requests. In a world where law enforcement has taken an increasingly-intrusive attitude to Internet traffic, the authors believe DNSÃÂ ...
Techworm
April 10, 2018
Cloudflare Inc., a website performance, and security company recently launched a new free public Domain Name System (DNS) service with 1.1.1.1 as its IP address. With the introduction of the 1.1.1.1 DNS service, Cloudflare's is looking to increase internet connection speeds for everyone. For thoseÃÂ ...
Ars Technica
April 9, 2018
Internet providers (and others watching traffic as it passes over the Internet) have long had a tool that allows them to monitor individuals' Internet habits with ease: their Domain Name System (DNS) servers. And if they haven't been cashing in on that data already (or using it to change how you see theÃÂ ...
PCMag
April 4, 2018
The Domain Name System (DNS) is crucial to how your users experience the internet. Each time users need to reach a website, their PC needs to translate whatever they type in an address bar into an IP address. Problem is, most people can't remember IP addresses so they'd rather type in the name of aÃÂ ...
Network World
April 4, 2018
However, these recommendations have overlooked one solution every network already uses – DNS, or the Domain Name System. As the entry point to every application on the internet, DNS plays a critical role in the deployment of IoT technologies. It is the mechanism by which IoT devices discover andÃÂ ...
The Verge
April 3, 2018
A couple days ago, Cloudflare launched its own DNS service at 1.1.1.1, promising that consumers would enjoy greater privacy and potentially faster internet if they switched over from their ISP's default. Now, those speed differences might not be significant or noticeable enough to the point of making theÃÂ ...
Security Boulevard
March 30, 2018
The killswitch uses a DNS lookup, stopping itself if it can resolve a certain domain. Manufacturing networks are largely disconnected from the Internet enough that such DNS lookups don't work, so the domain can't be found, so the killswitch doesn't work. Thus, manufacturing systems are no more likely toÃÂ ...
CSO Australia
March 29, 2018
With an increasing proportion of daily business reliant on the public internet, having effective Domain Name System (DNS) security in place has never been more important. Interacting with malicious web sites or downloading infected files can cause significant disruption and financial loss. UnfortunatelyÃÂ ...
The Register
March 20, 2018
Mozilla's plan to test a more secure method for resolving internet domain names – known as Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) via DNS over HTTPs (DoH) – in Firefox Nightly builds has met with objections from its user community due to privacy concerns. The browser maker's intentions appear to beÃÂ ...
TWCN Tech News (blog)
March 15, 2018
NCSI performs DNS query for www.msftncsi.com. Next, HTTP contacts the website http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt. The request is sent via a plain text file with only content as “Microsoft NCSI”, thus safeguarding the privacy of user's information. Then, NCSI performs a DNS query for dns.msftncsi.com.
CircleID
March 15, 2018
March has seen the first of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (OARC) workshops for the year, where two days of too much DNS is just not ... When you have a set of replicated content servers spread across the Internet how do you share the load so that each user is directed to a server thatÃÂ ...
IT World Canada
March 15, 2018
On April 10th, join IT World CIO and Chief Digital Officer Jim Love and Mark Gaudet of Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) as they explore the ways companies are using DNS tools to add a strong layer of protection. Jim and Mark will discuss new developments and the innovative strategiesÃÂ ...
WIRED
March 12, 2018
By DDoSing Dyn and destabilizing the company's DNS servers, attackers caused outages by disrupting the mechanism browsers use to look up websites. "The most frequently attacked targets for denial of service is web severs and DNS servers," says Dan Massey, chief scientist at the DNS security firmÃÂ ...
CSO Australia
March 12, 2018
An alarming number of organisations are still leaving themselves wide open to cyber-crime and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, by not prioritising domain name system (DNS) security. DNS is used by every single business on the internet, so seems perplexing that so few have full visibility orÃÂ ...
BlockExplorer News
March 11, 2018
When you connect to the attacker's website, your computer asks the internet where it can ask what the address of their domain is. The internet responds with “Go here and ask this server that”, with a link to the attacker's DNS server. Once that interaction happens, the attacker's server responds with theÃÂ ...
IT World Canada
March 8, 2018
The DNS, or Domain Name System, is foundational to the functioning of the Internet. Do you email? You're using DNS. Facebook? Same. When a DNS server has been rendered inaccessible by a cyber-attack, every single website that it supports is also inaccessible. Considering that companies today relyÃÂ ...
Information Age
March 8, 2018
In 1983 – the year the internet was born – the potential cyber attack surface consisted of a tiny 4.29 billion addresses. Now, 35 years and tens of billions of devices and websites later, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) can support a baffling 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – 340ÃÂ ...
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
March 2, 2018
Overview — Stabilizing the domain name resolution (DNS) infrastructure is critical to the operation of the internet. Single points of failure become more consequential as a larger proportion of the internet's biggest sites are managed by a small number of externally hosted DNS providers. Providers couldÃÂ ...
CSO Online
February 28, 2018
The DDoS attack on Dyn took many major web sites offline for most of a day, including Twitter, PayPal, Reddit, Amazon, and Netflix. Millions of compromised IoT devices, belonging to the Mirai botnet, flooded Dyn's DNS service with up to 1.2 TBps of bogus traffic, making it impossible to respond to genuineÃÂ ...
The Register
February 28, 2018
The world's top eight DNS providers now control 59 per cent of name resolution for the biggest Websites - and that puts the Web at risk, according to a group of Harvard University researchers. The group was led by Harvard's Shane Greenstein, and warned that since 2011, the "entropy" of the DNS (referringÃÂ ...
MakeUseOf
February 28, 2018
Over the past two decades, technological developments have dramatically improved internet speeds. Back when dial-up was the standard method to connect to the internet, even waiting for a low-res image to load gave you time to go make a coffee. These days, broadband and fiber connections haveÃÂ ...
TechTarget
February 20, 2018
According to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, there are 13 named authorities around the world that act as DNS root server systems. Within these 13 authorities, there are thousands of DNS servers that take up the root server role. DNS functions use a hierarchy structure to manage the millions of IPÃÂ ...
How-To Geek
February 19, 2018
If you're looking for something faster than your ISP's DNS servers, we recommend you run a DNS benchmark to find what's best for your connection. The fastest DNS server will depend on your geographical location and internet service provider, so we really can't recommend one fastest DNS provider forÃÂ ...
TWCN Tech News (blog)
December 31, 1999
There are many errors that you may face while browsing the Internet. They may just occur randomly or after you install any sorts of software. If you face this error, you need not panic. It's normal! If you see a message [Fiddler] DNS lookup for website failed system.net.sockets.socketexception No such host isÃÂ ...
Infosecurity Magazine
December 31, 1999
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 exfiltration can be successful because DNS is an integral part of the internet's infrastructure.
Digital Trends
December 31, 1999
We had a conversation with the co-founder and COO at Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn, about why 1.1.1.1 was created, and why a safer internet is needed now more than ever. In what ways are users currently unprotected on the internet? Michelle Zatlyn: DNS is this underlying protocol that makes the internetÃÂ ...
New Telegraph Newspaper
February 8, 2018
According to a report earlier obtained by this newspaper on the use of domain names in the national domain of Nigeria name, .ng which was carried out in December 2017 by a web-hosting company, HUB8. Of the 34,000 sites, less than 1,000 are located in Nigeria, which is only 2.3 per cent of the total.
CSO Online
February 6, 2018
The Mirai botnet showed just how easy it is for criminals to compromise critical internet infrastructure. By bringing down the domain name system (DNS) service provider for most major websites, the attackers were able to cut off access to Twitter, Netflix, PayPal, and other services. A blockchain approach toÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
February 6, 2018
With Thunder DNS, Comodo and Optimus are bringing world-class cybersecurity technologies to protect the next billion. DNS is a fundamental building block of the internet. All devices use DNS to navigate the web, just like people once used the yellow pages to look up a phone number. Since DNS acts asÃÂ ...
App Developer Magazine
February 5, 2018
DNS has been a part of the global internet since the 1980s, but its authentication mechanisms are fairly weak. As a result, DNS is vulnerable to a form of attack called cache poisoning. Cache poisoning is a man-in-the-middle attack that implants false DNS information to redirect end users to maliciousÃÂ ...
HackRead
January 31, 2018
The DNS or Domain Name System is one of the most necessary components for the internet functionality. Most often, the internet businesses are negligent to the security of their digital identity that is the DNS. This poor security of DNS makes it vulnerable to many cyber attacks which are beneficial for theÃÂ ...
Dark Reading
January 31, 2018
DNS hijacking is simple enough: one only needs to rewrite the configuration of a device on the Internet so that it sends DNS queries to malicious DNS servers. Many species of malware do this, often as just one of many consequences of infecting a device. And virtually any malware can do this — modifyingÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
January 18, 2018
Vixie said that when DNS was first released it was not secure enough to be used by everyone who wanted to access the internet. “It got out of the lab and into people's pockets a decade or so sooner than it should have been allowed to,” he said. “But I guess there's money to be made so we made it.”.
HackRead
January 18, 2018
New macOS malware hijacks DNS settings and takes screenshots ... Dubbed OSX/MaMi, the malware is capable of installing a new root certificate and hijacking the DNS servers then manipulating Internet traffic and redirecting it to a malicious server controlled by attackers and steal sensitive data from theÃÂ ...
GeekWire
January 18, 2018
If you've been on the internet, you've passed through a DNS service. The actual addresses of websites on the internet are a string of numbers, but it's much easier for everyone to remember (and type) real-word addresses, like geekwire.com. DNS servers translate a request for a text URL into the numericalÃÂ ...
The INQUIRER
January 18, 2018
MORE SECURITY PROBLEMS for Apple as fresh malware has been found that evades anti-virus software to snoop on macOS users' internet traffic. The malware was discovered by a Malwarebytes forum user going by the name of MikeOfMaine, who noted that there was something changing the domainÃÂ ...
IEEE Spectrum
January 17, 2018
That would likely involve setting up computer servers, copying existing databases, updating security features, and reconfiguring some existing technology—in essence, they'd need their own Domain Name System (DNS), the essential technology that underlies the existing Internet and, among other things,ÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
January 17, 2018
According to a report by the RBK web portal, Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017 ordered his government to negotiate independent root name servers for the so-called domain name system (DNS) with the BRICS states, which apart from Russia include Brazil, India, China and South Africa, by AugustÃÂ ...
SiliconANGLE News (blog)
January 17, 2018
Because the DNS network is spread out over numerous servers and providers, the individual node that happens to receive a URL query may not know what website it belongs to. In such cases, it will forward the request to other DNS nodes. If those machines don't have the necessary information either, theÃÂ ...
TechRadar
January 17, 2018
Mac users haven't had much good news on the security front early on in 2018, and that unfortunate streak is continuing with the revelation that macOS has been hit by a new strain of DNS hijacking malware (which inflicts more nastiness on the system besides that primary payload). Named as OSX/MaMi,ÃÂ ...
Laptop Mag
January 12, 2018
If it's "82.163.143.135" or "82.163.142.137," then you'll need to change it to something benign, such as Google's 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 or OpenDNS's 208.67.2222.222 or 208.67.220.220. Notice we said "was" infected. The MaMi sample that Wardle found deleted itself after changing the DNS settings on his testÃÂ ...
DSL Reports
January 10, 2018
The DNS stands for the Domain Name Server. It is an important part of the Internet, and serves as a directory to translate the web site address entered into the address bar of your favorite browser, into the IP Address that computers use. The DNS was created at the University of Wisconsin in 1983 so thatÃÂ ...
Security Boulevard
January 9, 2018
Users rarely log out of the web interfaces of their routers or NAS boxes, so authenticated sessions might remain active in their browsers. Bercegay also ... After some research, he found that My Cloud firmware shares a lot of code with a D-Link NAS product called DNS-320L ShareCenter. Not only that, butÃÂ ...
Motherboard
January 1, 2018
Multiple reports say the government was blocking internet on mobile networks starting on Dec. 30, including social media services like Instagram and messaging services like Telegram, to try and stop the protesters from organizing and amplifying their message. This is the biggest anti-government publicÃÂ ...
ZDNet
December 30, 2017
Yet the hyperlink -- this blue-underlined iconic symbol of the Internet -- is under threat as criminal organizations and secret foreign government agencies step up attacks on Domain Name System (DNS) servers to hijack traffic, inject spyware into corporate networks and dupe consumers into exposing privateÃÂ ...
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