A few years ago, I had the privilege of seeing some root DNS servers in action at VeriSign’s main headquarters. It’s something I had wanted to do for over a decade, and I was literally slightly ...

A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). The attack ...

Cybercriminals are now using techniques to launch distributed denial of service attacks once only available to nation-state threat actors. The last few months have seen an increase in the number of ...

The Web3 platform’s website has been restored, but the company still warns against using it. The hack may be linked to September’s attack on Balancer. The website of Web3 community platform Galxe was ...

Few things can strike fear into the heart of the IT department like an attack on a company’s Domain Name System servers. That may explain why companies are spending so much time to deploy myriad, ...

The creator of the Metasploit hacking toolkit has become the victim of a cache poisoning attack that targets a DNS bug HD Moore has been owned. That’s hacker talk, meaning that Moore, the creator of ...

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 ...

15% increase in DDoS attacks in second half of 2023 vs the first half 2023, totaling over 7 million attacks 10x rise in daily hacktivist DDoS attacks between the first half and second half of 2023 553 ...

Four out of five financial organizations experienced a DNS attack last year, according to IDC 2020 Global DNS Threat Report 59% of Financial Services companies suffered application downtime as a ...

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) software used to route messages between computers on the Internet. The attack code was released ...

For much of the past week, the various demonoid.com addresses (all static) sometimes unreachable through DNS. E.g. ping fora.demonoid.com suddenly goes 'Unknown host' and comes back hours later.

A global attack on the domain name system (DNS) caused disruptions affecting customers of Internet hosting company Akamai Technologies, including search engine sites, said Jeff Young, an Akamai ...