DNS resolvers play a key role in converting Web links to IP addresses, acting as a link between your computer and the Internet's DNS infrastructure. A DNS resolver is a local server that stores a ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The recent Distributed Denial of Service attack against ...

For some perspective on what 300 Gbps of traffic represents, let’s just pretend that your company, as a potential customer, put this massive volume of bits and bytes in front of 20 of the leading ...

Although DDoS attacks have been a serious problem for more than a decade now and security staffs have a good handle on how they’re executed and how to handle them, attackers constantly adjust their ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued an advisory recommending that enterprises employ only their designated DNS resolver for DNS traffic and avoid third-party resolvers, which could place ...

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The DHS and CISA booth at the 2019 RSA conference in San Francisco. (Scoop News Group photo) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to limit ransomeware, phishing, botnet and ...

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 ...

Internet network performance company CloudFlare has identified the nature of and networks behind a massive distributed denial of service attack against one of its customers. Writing on the company's ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...