The Domain Name System (DNS) is akin to the central exchange for the Internet. It lists, tracks, and matches domain names – like www.akamai.com — to machine-readable IP addresses – like 23.199.214.34 ...

Because of its universality, DNS has become a natural enforcement layer for network policies, whether for security, ...

The world of IT security has become more sophisticated and complex; as threats have grown exponentially, they have also become more blended, obscure, and harder to remediate. Today, most organisations ...

The July 11 Compound and Celer attacks may have been rooted in a Squarespace migration, and blockchain may help prevent future attacks. A July 11 domain name system (DNS) attack against multiple Web3 ...

A serious vulnerability named KeyTrap in the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) feature could be exploited to deny internet access to applications for an extended period. Tracked as ...

IT leaders in governments, critical infrastructure providers, and businesses must work closely with their ISPs and cybersecurity providers to block a tactic increasingly being used by threat actors to ...

Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming a domain without having access to the owner's account at the DNS provider or ...

To understand why DNS failures can be so disruptive, it's helpful to know how the Domain Name System is constructed. The internet contains over 378 million registered domain names, far too many for a ...

On May 12, 2025, at 20:55 UTC, hackers hijacked the “.fi” domain name system (DNS) of Curve Finance after managing to access the registrar. They began sending its users to a malicious website, ...

For over two decades, Infoblox has been synonymous with domain name system (DNS) security, helping organisations in defending against attacks targeting the availability or stability of a network’s DNS ...