DNS

Internet Grows To 271 Million Domain Names

More evidence of the growing Internet as it reaches 271 million registered domain names around the world

11 years ago

Turkish ISPs Set Up Fake Google DNS Servers

Google concerned over fake Domain Name System servers apparently set up by Turkish ISPs, amidst various forms of web censorship…

11 years ago

US Government To Cut Ties To Icann

Amidst growing international pressure, the US government has announced the Internet management body Icann will be independent as of late…

11 years ago

China Suffers Internet Outage After ‘DNS Hack’

Large-scale Internet outage in China raises questions about the Great Firewall

11 years ago

Bitcointalk.org Says DNS Was Hijacked, Passwords Compromised

On the same day, the website was also hit by DDoS attack

11 years ago

DNS Vulnerability And The New Gunpowder Plotters

When groups like Anonymous go on the warpath, companies' DNS services are where they may strike first, warns Chris Marrison

11 years ago

New York Times Downed By Syrian Electronic Army

The website of the New York Times has been taken offline in the latest Syrian Electronic Army attack

11 years ago

VeriSign Makes Diversity Move With FreeBSD Sponsorship

VeriSign backs FreeBSD with new sponsorship, so that the Global DNS does not just rely on one OS

11 years ago

LinkedIn Downed As ‘DNS Error’ Strikes

LinkedIn says site is back to normal after DNS glitch at its registrar

11 years ago

‘Critical’ BIND Vulnerability Puts DNS Servers At Risk

A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable…

12 years ago

Millions Of Open Servers Are Helping To Set Off Huge Digital Bombs

Spamhaus attacks show how the Internet's millions of open DNS resolvers are 'the scourge of the Internet'

12 years ago

DNS Attacks Take Out Google, PayPal In Romania

Kaspersky, Microsoft and Yahoo also hit

12 years ago

Google And Apple Sites Downed In Massive Pakistani DNS Hack

Tech giants amongst hundreds affected by DNS-level attack

12 years ago

‘Hacked’ Go Daddy Sites Serve Up Ransomware

Sophos asks how Go Daddy DNS records might have been compromised

12 years ago

Open Root: The Grandfather Of The Internet Takes On ICANN

FRANCE: Louis Pouzin invented a precursor to the Internet's TCP/IP's protoool, and now he wants to break ICANN's monopoly on…

12 years ago

Facebook Suffers Outage In Parts Of Europe And Asia

Early morning downtime reported by users across several countries

13 years ago

US Secret Service Pulls Plug On Forms Site

The US Secret Service has shut down and then reinstated online forms site JotForm, without the need for a law…

13 years ago

Google Public DNS Hits 70bn Requests Daily

Google's Public DNS is now processing 70 billion requests a day, the search engine giant revealed

13 years ago

Report Reveals VeriSign Was Repeatedly Hacked In 2010

Quarterly report from last November reveals that the network infrastructure provider was hacked and had data stolen multiple times in…

13 years ago

Google Tests TCP To Trim Latency Issues

Google engineers are exploring ways to cut latency issues inherent in the TCP connections made by web browsers

13 years ago

Analyst Plays Down Dot-Anything Brand Risk

Companies should not be concerned about buying up ICANN's new generic top-level domains to avoid risk to their brands, according…

13 years ago

Infoblox Looks To Raise £81m In IPO

Data centre software specialist Infoblox is looking to raise $125m (£81m) when it goes public later this month

13 years ago

OpenDNS Releases Encryption For All DNS Traffic

DNS traffic encryption from the client computer to OpenDNS servers can prevent attackers eavesdropping

13 years ago

Hackers Hijack The Register And The Telegraph

Several websites fell victim to a Domain Name System hijack carried out by Turkish hackers looking for laughs

13 years ago

Nominet Launches Free Trial Of Secure DNS

Nominet will give .uk domain owners a DNSSEC service to prevent hackers spreading counterfeit addresses

13 years ago

ICANN Upgrades Internet Security System

In an effort to step up its fight against cyber crime, ICANN has upgraded its security at the very top…

14 years ago

Network Housekeeper Infoblox Buys Netcordia

Infoblox's boxes handle network chores like DNS management. Now Netcordia adds change management

15 years ago