As much as 38 percent of the Internet’s domain name lookup servers are vulnerable to a new attack that allows hackers to send victims to maliciously spoofed addresses masquerading as legitimate ...

I'm trying to finish cleaning up a system that was absolutely chock-full o' viruses. The anti-virus (Symantec Corporate) claims everything is clean, and I've cleaned up the hosts file, which had a ...

Simple steps can make the difference between losing your online accounts or maintaining what is now a precious commodity: Your privacy. Read now Here's how it works: First, DNS is the internet's ...

When your company’s internet access, VoIP and email all depend on DNS, you have to ensure your DNS server is protected against DNS spoofing attacks. One solution: DNSSEC. Domain Name System (DNS) is ...

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 ...

A vulnerability in the BIND domain name system (DNS) software could give an attacker the ability to easily and reliably control queried name servers chosen by the most widely deployed DNS software on ...

Every time a user types a website URL in his or her browser, the browser contacts a local file (DNS Cache) to see if there is an entry to resolve the IP address of the website. The browser needs the ...

You've probably used the ipconfig command to view TCP/IP settings and renew a DHCP lease. In addition to these tasks, ipconfig can also help you manage DNS settings on a computer. For example, the DNS ...

If your router pings the modem, but you still have connectivity problems, you may have a faulty Winsock catalog, a corrupt DNS cache or IP conflicts. To troubleshoot a malfunctioning router, you must ...

Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...