This was not your typical hacktivist DDoS attack: a massive, 300 gigabits-per-second traffic attack against volunteer spam filtering organization Spamhaus spread yesterday to multiple Internet ...

A group of experts has released an open-source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security than BIND. The new DNS server — dubbed Unbound 1.0 — is ...

Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System (DNS) ...

The adoption of a set of Internet security protocols called Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is accelerating, with the number of signed zones more than tripling in the last year, ...

Most people don’t think about DNS at all. I know I didn’t, at least not until I started running into those little internet headaches that never quite go away. You know the ones I'm talking about, ...

Although this week’s large-scale DDoS attack against Spamhaus may not have been as crippling as early reports suggested, they were noteworthy in that they shined spotlights on a couple of the Internet ...

But in a DNS amplification attack the resolver should see a big number of requests all from the same IP so why they doesn't blacklist it? Is in their interest to stop an IP to request GB of data,isn't ...