ISC patched 14 BIND 9 vulnerabilities that could enable DNS cache poisoning, remote crashes, resource exhaustion, or DNSSEC bypasses.

The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to poison entire caches of results and send users to ...

Humans have always had difficulty remembering number sequences. Back in 1956, George Miller did some research on digit span recall tasks and found that humans are only able to hold seven plus or minus ...

NS1, a domain name system (DNS) and traffic management provider, is taking on “DNS cache poisoning” attacks with new DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) capabilities built into its platform. DNS ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is often referred to as the Internet’s address book, translating human-friendly domain names into IP addresses. But what if a malicious actor were to swap the address book ...

A newly disclosed security vulnerability in the DNS system could leave providers at risk of server attacks. Keyu Man, Xin'an Zhou and Zhiyun Qian of the University of California, Riverside said in a ...

WikiLeaks was attacked by the hacking group known as OurMine, which used domain name system (DNS) poisoning to take over WikiLeaks' web address. What is DNS poisoning, and how was OurMine able to pull ...