This was not your typical hacktivist DDoS attack: a massive, 300 gigabits-per-second traffic attack against volunteer spam filtering organization Spamhaus spread yesterday to multiple Internet ...

A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security. A group of experts has released an open source ...

Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System (DNS) ...

Although this week’s large-scale DDoS attack against Spamhaus may not have been as crippling as early reports suggested, they were noteworthy in that they shined spotlights on a couple of the Internet ...

who would have thought resolving names could slow down Internet browsing to the point where I can actually notice the difference without measurements! I have Verizon FIOS and while browsing sometimes ...

But in a DNS amplification attack the resolver should see a big number of requests all from the same IP so why they doesn't blacklist it? Is in their interest to stop an IP to request GB of data,isn't ...

Too many DNS servers enable bad actors to hijack them for DDoS attacks. Here's how to ensure you're not a party to destructive mischief It seems like ancient history now, but in the early decades of ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet address book. DNS determines the correct IP address for websites when users enter domain names like “microsoft.com” or “thewindowsclub.com” into web ...