Here you will find all the articles with the tag: DNS.
A design flaw in security extensions on the network protocol allows hackers to cut off large parts of the world from the internet. Researchers clarified the danger with the development of a KeyTrap attack that requires only a single DNS packet. The network protocol contains an easily exploitabl... Read more
2 months ago
Microsoft has added support for the new Internet standard Discovery of Network-designated Resolvers (DNR) in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25982. The new DNR functionality will soon allow Windows 11 users, when it rolls out in production versions, to automatically discover encrypted DNS serve... Read more
6 months ago
Infoblox is adding Lookalike Domain Monitoring to BloxOne Threat Defense. The new feature should help identify sites that impersonate well-known brands. Such a feature can be useful in the fight against phishing and malware attacks. For example, cybercriminals impersonate well-known brands to be... Read more
1 year ago
Research by Akamai indicates that 20 percent of all domain names registered in the past six months (79 million) were created for malicious purposes. Akamai claims that its security software is able to identify malicious domain names within minutes. Most cybercriminals depend on domain names. Or... Read more
2 years ago
Nozomi Networks discovered vulnerable third-party libraries in hundreds of IoT devices from well-known manufacturers. The vulnerability allows cybercriminals to assign fraudulent IP addresses. According to the security specialists, hundreds of IoT devices suffer from a vulnerability that allows ... Read more
2 years ago
The new infrastructure should have built-in filtering capabilities, according to the spec. The European Union is officially in the market to build its own recursive DNS service. The service will be made available to EU institutions and the general public for free. The proposed service, named&... Read more
2 years ago
A research team at the University of California Riverside discloses a large-scale DNS spoofing threat. The researchers managed to flood Linux resolvers with forged IP addresses to pose as a trustworthy Domain Name Server (DNS) and redirect end users to dangerous websites. According to the team, the... Read more
2 years ago
The DDI market displays strong growth. The importance of good and thorough DNS, DHCP and IP address management has been well established by now. Now it's time to take the next steps. How do you get even more value out of DNS data? We discussed this this with Martin van Son, Senior Account Executive... Read more
2 years ago
Millions of IoT (Internet of Things) devices have security vulnerabilities that could allow cybercriminals to knock devices offline or control them remotely. The problem with this is that it opens the door to gain wider access to bigger networks. Nine major vulnerabilities are affecting four TCP... Read more
3 years ago
Industry oberservers have known for some time that Chromium-based browsers generate a lot of DNS traffic. Due to the browser code, Chromium-running machines would do DNS queries to try to determine if input into their omnibox is a domain name or a search query. Now, a cleaned-up version of the Chro... Read more
3 years ago
