This was not your typical hacktivist DDoS attack: a massive, 300 gigabits-per-second traffic attack against volunteer spam filtering organization Spamhaus spread yesterday to multiple Internet ...

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 ...

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 group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...

Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit, an ...

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 ...

Most people don’t think about DNS at all. I know I didn’t, at least not until I started running into those little internet headaches that never quite go away. You know the ones I'm talking about, ...

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 ...

Internet infrastructure company Nominum launched a set of cloud-based services on Tuesday. Its new hosted Domain Name System division, Skye, is offering DNS caching, an authoritative DNS service, ...

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 ...

A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security. A group of experts has released an open source ...