While users use domain names to visit most websites, the actual address of the server hosting the site uses an IP address. Domain Name System, or DNS, servers translate domain names and then direct ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

My older kid was trying to apply for college at a university in Florida. Perversely, its website refused to appear. He tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on his Mac and Safari on his iPhone. Only his ...

This week, I’m once again delaying the next installment in the business continuity event management series to discuss what I believe is one of the most valuable free solutions for identifying DNS risk ...

DNS Hijacking is a major issue in the connected world. Every unique instance you type an address into your address bar your internet-connected device makes a request to a DNS server to get the actual ...

Your ISP's DNS servers are likely the fastest due to their proximity to you. If you don't want to use them, try a DNS ...

DNS (Domain Name System) settings in Windows help your computer translate website names into IP addresses. However, many of us tend to use a third-party DNS, such as Google Public DNS, as it is often ...

Microsoft made available on August 5 another new Windows 10 Dev Channel (former Fast Ring) feature update test build. Build 20185 adds some IT pro/business features, plus a bunch of fixes. In Build ...

In June, Mozilla had announced that they were performing a limited Shield study for their Nightly users to monitor the performance of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox. This study uses Cloudflare's DNS ...

In an effort to detect whether a network will hijack DNS queries, Google's Chrome browser and its Chromium-based brethren randomly conjures up three domain names between 7 and 15 characters to test, ...