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Authoritative resolvers which host the records for a given domain. Recursive resolvers which are used by end-users for name mapping. Typically they also serve as a cache. A typical configuration is ...

Attackers can use a newly disclosed domain name server (DNS) vulnerability publicly known as TsuNAME as an amplification vector in large-scale reflection-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...

Mozilla is promoting the use of DNS encryption for privacy protection and is promoting the 'Trusted Recursive Resolvers (TRR)' program. For the first time as an Internet service provider (IPS), it was ...

Internet network performance company CloudFlare has identified the nature of and networks behind a massive distributed denial of service attack against one of its customers. Writing on the company's ...

Some domain name server (DNS) implementations are at risk for denial-of-service attacks after a vulnerability was disclosed and patched in a few popular server packages, including BIND, PowerDNS and ...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors' DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access ...

More secure keys protecting the directory name system (DNS) are ready to deploy, but for those using DNS servers that haven't been upgraded, it could cause problems reaching websites. Ready or not, ...

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organization that develops and maintains the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software, has patched a publicly disclosed vulnerability that can be ...

A type of distributed denial-of-service attack, DNS amplification, has risen sharply, according to new research from Symantec. The security vendor said it saw a 183 percent increase in DNS (Domain ...