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 ...

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 ...

Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...

For some perspective on what 300 Gbps of traffic represents, let’s just pretend that your company, as a potential customer, put this massive volume of bits and bytes in front of 20 of the leading ...

Although DDoS attacks have been a serious problem for more than a decade now and security staffs have a good handle on how they’re executed and how to handle them, attackers constantly adjust their ...

Cloudflare has introduced a new DNS resolver, which is both named and situated at 1.1.1.1, that may go further than any other towards keeping users’ web browsing data private. Better still, its ...

Google has created a new system to resolve DNS (domain name system) queries that the company claims will speed up Web browsing for end-users, as well as make it more secure. Google Public DNS, ...

I used to use the DNS servers provided by my ISP until I realized that they were using those nameservers to serve ads, block me from content they deemed inappropriate, and generally track my browsing ...

Sony Music Entertainment Germany won a court order to 'block access to pirated distribution sites' in a trial with the free DNS resolver Quad9. Quad9 is poised to appeal that the injunction will have ...

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 ...