If your child uses his or her computer for visiting sites that you may not otherwise want him or her to be visiting, it’s time to start checking up on his or her online activities. The Internet is a ...

Websites such as Google, Facebook and Twitter have both a hostname and an Internet protocol address. A hostname is the alphanumeric label assigned to a domain, such as Google.com or Twitter.com; an IP ...

An zero-day vulnerability in the DNS server service in Windows is under attack, Microsoft warned in a security advisory. The "limited attacks" are exploiting a stack ...

A public exploit appeared just two days after Microsoft Corp. acknowledged a critical vulnerability in its server software, a change one security company said “greatly increases” the chances of a ...

A critical vulnerability that’s been sitting in Microsoft’s Windows DNS Server for almost two decades could be exploited to gain Domain Administrator privileges and compromise the entire corporate ...

DNS blocking is an effective countermeasure against sites that distribute pirated or illegal software. In response to the increasing number of requests for DNS blocking, TorrentFreak, a media outlet ...

I have my DHCP server (on Sonicwall) configured to give out the domain controller/DNS server ip as primary DNS, for secondary DNS I have set to give out 1.1.1.1, for tertiary 8.8.4.4 Does this comply ...

A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – converts web addresses into IP addresses. Without a DNS server, you won't be able to connect to any websites. If you're having issues with your ...

Remote code execution vulnerabilities that affect the core networking components of operating systems are rare these days, but when they happen, the IT industry is put on alert because they are among ...

After pledging to “wipe out Twitter,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered Turkish ISPs to block the social networking site, redirecting requests to a government webpage. But that move, ...