Malware authors are using a new technique to keep their communications covert and evade detection: abusing the DNS protocol. According to Fidelis Security, DNS command and control (C&C) and DNS ...

Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are both separately advocating the move to a new encrypted internet protocol called DNS over HTTPS aimed at improving cybersecurity on the web. But internet ...

The Domain Name Service is what I call a “dense” protocol. I call it dense because there is so much to DNS that it has resulted in many books being written solely on DNS, what it is, and what it does.

A high-profile security research outfit on Tuesday warned that a newly discovered flaw in the Domain Name System protocol could be exploited remotely to crash vulnerable servers. The vulnerability, ...

Apple engineers recently worked with web security company Cloudflare to develop a new DNS protocol that better protects user privacy. Known as Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, or ODoH, the goal is to protect ...

Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an "Internet-Draft" outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, ...

Speculation continues as to what the ultimate systemic Domain Name System (DNS) flaw could be. This flaw apparently allows Web surfers to be spoofed, directing them to fake Web sites to gain passwords ...

Internet registry Nominet has begun introducing DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, a security protocol that should help protect the UK's domain-name system from malicious misdirections. On Monday, ...

About two weeks ago, we covered the release of a DNS security fix meant to patch a vulnerability in the system that matches domain names with IP addresses. The flaw had been discovered by security ...