When you surf the Internet, you refer to computers and websites by their domain name, such as "google.com." The Internet, however, uses IP addresses to route traffic. Every time you type a domain name ...

DNS traffic is prone to snooping, and it’s often far too easy for attackers to hijack and change a company’s DNS settings. These simple steps will amp up your DNS protection. Domain Name System (DNS) ...

Check it out.You're about to go there right now.A very common DNS server you might use is Google.They have a DNS server found at the IP address, 8 8 8 8.It's one of the very few IP addresses I have ...

Jigsaw, a technology incubator created by Google and operated as a subsidiary under the Alphabet brand, has released today an Android app named Intra that can encrypt DNS queries as a protection ...

The death of network neutrality and the loosening of regulations on how Internet providers handle customers’ network traffic have raised many concerns over privacy. Internet providers (and others ...

To the delight of Windows system administrators everywhere, Microsoft has announced that a new version of Sysmon is coming out this week that will include the ability to log DNS queries performed on a ...

Browser VPN extensions for Google Chrome may be leaking DNS queries to external observers thanks to a Chrome feature called DNS prefetching. DNS prefetching works when Chrome makes DNS requests before ...

The Chromium browser—open source, upstream parent to both Google Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge—is getting some serious negative attention for a well-intentioned feature that checks to see if a ...