Although we use easy-to-remember web addresses, the internet actually operates on a system of IP addresses and remote servers. Behind the scenes, it hinges on the Domain Name System (DNS), which ...

Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are both separately advocating the move to a new encrypted internet protocol called DNS over HTTPS aimed at improving cybersecurity on the web. But internet ...

In brief: Those who value their digital privacy are always looking for new ways to block companies, hackers, or government agencies from spying on their online activities. If you're one of those ...

The security community generally agrees on the importance of encrypting private data: Add a passcode to your smartphone. Use a secure messaging app like Signal. Adopt HTTPS web encryption. But a new ...

Antitrust investigators with the House Judiciary Committee are looking into Google’s plans to add Domain Name System over Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (DNS over HTTPS) to its Chrome browser, the ...

As reported by Vice, Internet company Comcast urges US lawmakers to go against Google's plans to encrypt DNS (domain name system) data on Chrome. DNS data includes browsing history or the websites ...

In one way, the proliferation of domain name service (DNS) attacks throughout the world has helped to raise awareness about a deep problem in the “plumbing” of the internet. The infrastructure behind ...

DNS spoofing/poisoning is the attack discovered by [Dan Kaminski] back in 2008 that simply refuses to go away. This week a vulnerability was announced in the uClibc and uClibc-ng standard libraries, ...

Section 4 is dedicated to the most comprehensive possible use of encryption and identity management. Software should have to support DNS encryption and also use it; email programs should only ...

When you visit a new website, your computer probably submits a request to the domain name system (DNS) to translate the domain name (like arstechnica.com) to an IP address. Currently, most DNS queries ...