“The Slammer virus affected all the naming resolution pieces in the city,” says Mark Whitt, IS administrator for the city’s IT department. “We couldn’t get the vulnerability under control. So we began ...

It is very important to make sure that your DNS is working efficiently, as it is one of the most important aspects of web-technology. Generally, DNS makes sure that your website gives its visitors ...

Nominum plans to announce today a novel DNS security capability that functions like a spam blacklist, providing automated, real-time checking of DNS queries against a list of Web sites that are known ...

October 16, 2012 – Secure64 Software Corporation has released a new version of its Secure64 DNS Manager product, which helps communication service providers (CSPs) configure, manage and monitor all of ...

Multiple DNS software and service providers will update their DNS software to speed up DNS traffic and fight against DDoS attacks by stopping the implementation of DNS resolver workarounds still used ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Mockapetris is surprised that the Domain Name System (DNS) hasn’t changed more in the 20 years since he invented it, but he doesn’t expect it to run out of steam any time soon. The chief ...

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.

A group of vulnerabilities in the popular DNSMasq software used for domain name system (DNS) caching and IP address assignment could allow an attacker to reroute network traffic or use nearly 1 ...