Security experts have disclosed today details about seven vulnerabilities impacting a popular DNS software package that is commonly deployed in networking equipment, such as routers and access points.

I've read that when running a local DNS server, it is a good idea to disable the caching DNS clients at the workstations that will be using that DNS server. (See Simple DNS Plus, for ...

Researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of California have identified a new method that can be used to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks. The new discovery revives a 2008 bug that ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB), author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying ...

The use of hyperscalers and their public cloud services in particular means that IP-based sets of rules only make limited sense. At the same time, DNS resolvers are distributed throughout the system ...

Microsoft patched three memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Windows DNS client that could be abused by a man-in-the-middle attacker to run arbitrary code. Three critical Windows DNS client ...

Your ISP configures a DNS server, or you can manually set it on your router or PC if you are using the public DNS such as Cloudflare, Google, and others. Since the ...

Makers of the software used to connect computers on the Internet collectively released software updates Tuesday to patch a serious bug in one of the Internet’s underlying protocols, the Domain Name ...

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