Tag Archives: DNS

The NSA warns enterprises to beware of third-party DNS resolvers

Getty Images reader comments 74 with 43 posters participating Share this story 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 plaintext channel—as DNS has done for more than three decades—DoH, as DNS over… Read More »

DNS cache poisoning, the Internet attack from 2008, is back from the dead

reader comments 67 with 45 posters participating Share this story In 2008, researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed one of the more severe Internet security threats ever: a weakness in the domain name system that made it possible for attackers to send users en masse to imposter sites instead of the real ones belonging to Google, Bank… Read More »