After engaging in a recent rash of attacks in retaliation for the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, the Anonymous denial of service “cannons” have been firing considerably fewer shells of late ...

The domain name system (DNS) is a naming database in which internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The domain name system maps the name people use to ...

This article was co-authored by Annie Edmundson, Paul Schmitt and Nick Feamster. The recent news that Mozilla and Cloudflare are deploying their own DNS recursive resolver has once again raised hopes ...

In the world of DNS, there are two types of DNS servers, recursion disabled and recursion enabled. Recursion disabled servers, when asked to resolve a name, will only answer for names that they are ...

The domain name system -- the database that translates easy-to-read and easy-to-use domain names into complex IP addresses -- plays a crucial role in modern networking. Its security is one of the most ...