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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.

The domain name system (DNS) is the backbone of the internet, but it’s also one of its biggest security blind spots. As a translator between user-friendly domain names and machine-friendly IP ...

There has been a long history of attacks on the DNS ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS cache-poisoning attack ...

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 ...

Few recent Internet threats have made such a big impact as security researcher Dan Kaminsky's discovery, in 2008, of fundamental flaws in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol that can be used by ...

When you type a website into your address bar—like PCMag.com—your computer doesn't actually know where to go on its own. Instead, it looks that address up on a Domain Name System (DNS) server, which ...