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 ...

Computers can interpret only a series of numbers and thus, DNS (Domain Name System) was created to translate domains from the web browser into IP addresses. In this post, we will learn about a free ...

Most people ignore DNS, but it can slow everything down.

Some time ago, Amazon introduced the concept of using a resolver as a means for performing DNS queries across a hybrid network. Imagine for example, that you were to deploy AWS Route 53 within AWS.

The AWS Route 53 service allows you to create a DNS firewall that you can use to prevent or allow specific DNS queries. For example, if you know that the resources within a particular VPC are 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 ...

Security practitioners for decades have advised people to limit DNS queries against their DNS servers to only use UDP port 53. The reality is that DNS queries can also use TCP port 53 if UDP port 53 ...

Celebrated author/Infoblox technologist Cricket Liu explains how to prevent DNS-based DDoS attacks -- and avoid being an unwitting accomplice to one When it comes to DNS, Cricket Liu literally wrote ...