(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

Instead of broadcasting your Domain Name System requests in plaintext, DNS over HTTPS encrypts your requests so that they're unreadable by outside sources. DoH uses the same encryption standards as ...

Every device and app we use that connects to the Internet uses DNS to figure out where to route data. We trust our browsers with an enormous amount of personal information, and while much of that is ...

A DNS or Domain Name System is one of the most crucial keys to establishing internet connectivity between two different parties — customarily, a client and a server. It acts as a directory, with ...

I'm having DNS issues with two of our websites. The project is eliminating our hosting provider and bringing everything in-house. I'm tasked with reconfiguring the nameservers for those domains and ...

Nearly everything on the internet begins with a Domain Name System (DNS) request. When you click a link on a website or send an email, the first thing your device does is consult a DNS to find out ...

For cybersecurity professionals, the welcome urgency behind these recent warnings may get lost in the wilderness of the cyber issues that they face. “Positive developments” like the above directive ...

Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox are both separately advocating the move to a new encrypted internet protocol called DNS over HTTPS aimed at improving cybersecurity on the web. But internet ...

If you’re overly paranoid about computer security, you probably know that standard DNS isn’t terribly secure. Why? Because, by default, DNS queries are not encrypted. That means DNS can be (and often ...

Choose between the four best private DNS options – AdGuard DNS, NextDNS, RethinkDNS, and Control D to block ads on Android. Go to Settings > search for “Private DNS” > add the DNS of your choice > ...

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 ...