It's all about your IP address. As Digital Inspiration explains, all of the major websites use Content Delivery Networks like Amazon and Akamai to serve up the content. A CDN looks up your computer's ...

Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System (DNS) ...

A new threat to the internet is multiplying through DNS servers that are more open than they should be, delegates to last month's ICANN Inc.'s Wellington conference and New Zealand Network Operators ...

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 ...

Although this week’s large-scale DDoS attack against Spamhaus may not have been as crippling as early reports suggested, they were noteworthy in that they shined spotlights on a couple of the Internet ...

who would have thought resolving names could slow down Internet browsing to the point where I can actually notice the difference without measurements! I have Verizon FIOS and while browsing sometimes ...

'This vulnerability has been in Microsoft code for more than 17 years; so if we found it, it is not impossible to assume that someone else already found it as well,' says security firm Check Point. A ...

A Domain Name System server maps host names, or domain names, to IP addresses. When a computer attempts to connect to another PC over a network using a host name, such as www.google.com, the ...

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 ...

Too many DNS servers enable bad actors to hijack them for DDoS attacks. Here's how to ensure you're not a party to destructive mischief It seems like ancient history now, but in the early decades of ...

But in a DNS amplification attack the resolver should see a big number of requests all from the same IP so why they doesn't blacklist it? Is in their interest to stop an IP to request GB of data,isn't ...