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.

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A high-profile security research outfit on Tuesday warned ...

The guidance is part of a broader effort to help the federal ecosystem meet a zero trust deadline this fall. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is out with new guidance to help ...

Domain Name Service (DNS) servers partially make up the internet's backbone as we know it. They allow anyone to plug a URL in and go to a website, as otherwise, we would have to know the IP address ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...