A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is available ...

DNS (Domain Name System) connects your computer to the Internet server, acting as an essential link between the two. Your computer’s Internet connection is recognized by a default IP address, which is ...

Do you support several DNS servers? Is the process of matching domain names with corresponding IP addresses taking up more of your IT department’s processing power? If your answers to these two ...

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How to turn on private DNS on your iPhone - and why it's a must for security ...

Every time your iPhone reaches for a website, it quietly asks a Domain Name System server to translate a name like example.com into a numeric address. In most cases those DNS lookups travel in the ...

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory, an Internet ...

21 November 2006Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, DNS poisonings and vulnerabilities of O/Ss and commonly used DNS servers are causing problems in networks all over the world. Up until now, there have ...

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 ...

A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. The ...