The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a terrifyingly high rate". On this Interisle report (via Andrew Campling),
DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead. and more — today's dns signal.
"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release and more — today's dns signal.
Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
Insect-inspired "sparse coding" does fast learning, avoids catastrophic forgetting.
Squarespace keeps growing and is now the fourth-largest registrar for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data Verisign provides to ICANN. The data is always three months in arrears; the newest data provid
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Terence Eden shares some daunting statistics in support of his take that "the Domain Name System's purpose seems to be a vector for criminals to run scams on people at a terrifyingly high rate". On this Interisle report (via Andrew Campling),
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat lands
Route hijack attacks cause malicious rerouting of Internet traffic by exploiting the trusting nature of the Internet’s routing system. During the summer of 2025, a route hijack attack affected the Domain Name System’s (DNS) root servers. If it were more widely deployed, technolo
A pair of presentations featured during the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Open session of the IETF 110 Online meeting (8-12 March 2021) will highlight the application of machine learning to video bit-rate adaptation and Domain Name System (DNS) caching and privacy.
An RFC updating DNS terminology was recently published, continuing a decades-long IETF practice of publishing documents to help introduce interested readers to protocol topics by going through the most important terms.
The DoH specification in RFC 8484 defines a standardized format and protocol for sending Domain Name System (DNS) queries through HTTP rather than the traditional DNS protocol.
Bert Hubert, the founder of PowerDNS and author of RFC 5452, shares his views on forces influencing DNS protocol development.
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
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