Malware authors are using a new technique to keep their communications covert and evade detection: abusing the DNS protocol. According to Fidelis Security, DNS command and control (C&C) and DNS ...

The Domain Name Service is what I call a “dense” protocol. I call it dense because there is so much to DNS that it has resulted in many books being written solely on DNS, what it is, and what it does.

Dynamic Name System (DNS) is one of the basic plumbing operations that makes the Internet work. It takes words that people understand and translates them into numeric IP addresses that the Internet ...

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

Engineers from Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new way to prevent your internet service provider (ISP) from knowing which websites you visit. As reported by TechCrunch, the engineers ...

Internet registry Nominet has begun introducing DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, a security protocol that should help protect the UK's domain-name system from malicious misdirections. On Monday, ...

Apple and Cloudflare have jointly developed a new Internet protocol designed to protect your privacy, by preventing your internet service provider (ISP) from seeing which websites you visit. Currently ...

Cloudflare and Apple have collaborated to announce a new DNS protocol, Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH). By using ODoH, it is possible to conceal the source IP address of the client that has been ...

ICANN has unanimously approved a request by the Public Interest Registry (which handles .org domains) to become the first generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) to switch to the DNS security protocol DNSSEC.

DNS over TLS or DoT is an encrypted DNS protocol. It is considered an alternative to DNS over HTTPS (DoH). In this post, we will see how you can enable DNS over TLS in Windows 11 and what this ...

Thanks to the expansion of HTTPS, the secure version of the original HTTP protocol, most internet traffic is encrypted today, improving your privacy and protecting your browsing data from the wary ...