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.

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 ...

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 ...

Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an "Internet-Draft" outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, ...

A high-profile security research outfit on Tuesday warned that a newly discovered flaw in the Domain Name System protocol could be exploited remotely to crash vulnerable servers. The vulnerability, ...

Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be. This flaw apparently allows Web surfers to be spoofed, directing them to fake Web sites to gain passwords ...

Internet registry Nominet has begun introducing DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, a security protocol that should help protect the UK's domain-name system from malicious misdirections. On Monday, ...

About two weeks ago, we covered the release of a DNS security fix meant to patch a vulnerability in the system that matches domain names with IP addresses. The flaw had been discovered by security ...

Apple and Cloudflare have jointly developed a new Internet protocol designed to protect your privacy, by preventing your internet service provider (ISP) from seeing which websites you visit. Currently ...

The guidance is part of a broader effort to help the federal ecosystem meet a zero trust deadline this fall. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is out with new guidance to help ...