The Domain Name Service, or DNS, is a global network that turns the domain names you type in your web browser into the internet protocol addresses that computers use to connect to one another. Your ...

You’re probably using the wrong DNS and don’t know it.

Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...

Cloudflare made headlines by introducing its new, fast Domain Name System (DNS) resolver, which boasted improved security and faster reaction times. But, is Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 really faster than ...

A smart DNS service can complement -- or even replace -- a VPN for streaming. Here’s how the two are alike and how they differ. Sam Dawson is a cybersecurity expert and VPN reviewer. After making the ...

Cloudflare is an old hand at speeding up corporate internet services with its content delivery network (CDN). The company is also a pro at blocking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Now, ...

Microsoft has added a privacy feature to Windows 11 called DNS-over-HTTPS, allowing users to perform encrypted DNS lookups to bypass censorship and Internet activity. When connecting to a website or ...

A team of researchers from UC Irvine and Tsinghua University has developed a new powerful cache poisoning attack named 'MaginotDNS,' that targets Conditional DNS (CDNS) resolvers and can compromise ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.