When millions of people suddenly couldn't load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on ...

What Is DNS, Anyway? Simply put, Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the internet. It’s the system that converts website domain names (hostnames) into numerical values (IP address) so they ...

Two recent events are once again bringing the internet’s foundational Domain Name System into the news, and not in a good way. The first event involving the DNS last week was a warning from the ...

If you want to be a sysadmin or network administrator of any kind, there’s a fundamental technology you really need to understand—DNS, the Domain Name System. There was a time when a sysadmin with no ...

The Domain Name System is an essential part of your internet experience. We explain why it's important and show you how to upgrade to a better DNS server for increased speed and security. When the IBM ...

The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a set of specifications that extend the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol by adding cryptographic authentication for responses received from ...

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a ...