DNS resolvers play a key role in converting Web links to IP addresses, acting as a link between your computer and the Internet's DNS infrastructure. A DNS resolver is a local server that stores a ...

Google released its first public DNS resolver, aimed at making Web browsing faster and improving the users' Internet experience when they connect to various IP addresses. Like an Internet switchboard, ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

When your browser sends a request out to find the real IP address of www.google.com, your computer will forward that request for DNS resolver. DNS resolver is an automatically bot, which will go ...

New Rust release brings major improvements to musl’s DNS resolver and tweaks the standard library to aid global allocators.

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued an advisory recommending that enterprises employ only their designated DNS resolver for DNS traffic and avoid third-party resolvers, which could place ...

The DHS and CISA booth at the 2019 RSA conference in San Francisco. (Scoop News Group photo) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to limit ransomeware, phishing, botnet and ...

Open DNS resolvers are being leveraged in massive 300 Gbps distributed denial of service attacks against Spamhaus this week. Experts call for widespread implementation of source address validation to ...

The US National Security Agency has published today a guide on the benefits and risks of encrypted DNS protocols, such as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), which have become widely used over the past two years.

DNS over HTTPS is a new protocol that protects domain-lookup traffic from eavesdropping and manipulation by malicious parties. Rather than an end-user device communicating with a DNS server over a ...