Well-publicized attacks against Domain Name System (DNS) root servers and top-level domains highlight the vulnerability of the DNS infrastructure. Many CIOs are looking for ways to ensure secure, ...

Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all, lookups are rarely end-to-end encrypted. The servers providing domain ...

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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 ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Newly published research shows that the domain name system—a fundamental part of the web—can be exploited to hide malicious code and prompt injection attacks against chatbots. Hackers are stashing ...

Threat actors are using Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling to track when their targets open phishing emails and click on malicious links, and to scan networks for potential vulnerabilities. DNS ...

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a ...

China-linked Evasive Panda used DNS poisoning to deliver the MgBot backdoor in targeted espionage attacks from 2022 to 2024.

We have noticed that sometimes, Windows fails to resolve the domain name when one tries to ping it or do nslookup. Sometimes, when trying to run the nslookup command, they encounter this; however, on ...