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What the heck is DNS over HTTPS and why does everyone keep arguing about it?

Instead of broadcasting your Domain Name System requests in plaintext, DNS over HTTPS encrypts your requests so that they're ...
PC Magazine

What Is DNS? Everything You Need to Know About the Web's Phone Book

Hackers have sometimes taken advantage of lax oversight and used DNS maliciously. One example of that is DNS cache poisoning, in which false data is fed into the DNS cache that directs people to ...

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...
Ars Technica

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses.