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

A public exploit appeared just two days after Microsoft Corp. acknowledged a critical vulnerability in its server software, a change one security company said “greatly increases” the chances of a ...

Companies that haven't applied the workarounds for the Microsoft DNS server flaw yet need to make it their top priority. This is NOT something that can wait for a planned weekly or monthly outage; the ...

The DNS cache poisoning bug that Microsoft Corp. patched last Tuesday stems from a flaw that has been known to researchers for 10 years or more, the two security firms credited with reporting the ...

Microsoft recommends disabling remote management over RPC for the DNS server by modifying the registry, blocking unsolicited inbound traffic on ports 1024-5000 using a firewall, and enabling the ...

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The big picture: The domain name lookup process is one of the most significant holes in network security. Despite being crucial for translating human-friendly web addresses into IP numbers that ...