The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

DNS failure is a failure to communicate between your device and a DNS server. When a DNS failure occurs, you can't reach the internet address you wanted to reach. As a viewer, this might mean you ...

When millions of people suddenly couldn't load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on ...

For too long, we've treated DNS as a simple utility. It's just a phonebook for the internet, right? Treating it that way is a mistake. Nearly every single ...

Whether it’s a digital exploit or a physical break-in, every entryway into your hospital systems must be secured; DNS is no ...

In the DNS server BIND, three security vulnerabilities have been discovered. A public proof-of-concept makes attacks more ...

"It's always DNS." That was a popular online response to last week's global AWS outage. The Dutch cybersecurity agency NCSC ...

The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities ...

A growing number of owners say their domains point somewhere, yet nothing they planned appears. The placeholder looks reassuring. If your browser lands on ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, defines a proxy server as “a server that services the requests of its clients by forwarding those requests to other servers.” ...

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The ...