Pros and Cons of DNSSEC
6 April 2023
An Introduction to DNSSEC
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) is a technology that provides an additional layer of security to the Domain Name System (DNS) by adding digital signatures to DNS data. DNS is responsible for translating human-readable...
DNS for starters
02 February 2023
What is DNS:
DNS is the system that translates domain names into IP addresses. This allows you to use a human-readable domain name (such as www.example.com) instead of a machine-readable IP address (such as 192.0.2.1).
How DNS Works:
When an end-user sends a...
Understanding DNS attacks
15 December 2022
DNS Attacks: DNS, or the Domain Name System, is a critical infrastructure technology that is used to translate human-readable domain names into the numerical IP addresses that computers use to communicate with each other on the internet. As with any...
Anycast DNS versus Unicast DNS
15 December 2022
Anycast and Unicast are two different methods for routing network traffic in a network. Both methods are commonly used in the Domain Name System (DNS), which is the system that translates human-readable domain names (like google.com) into the numerical IP...
New DDoS Attack Record in June 2022
Sunday 17 July 2022
Last month, a massive botnet-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has hit the Internet, two years after the record-breaking 23 million requests per second (RPS) attack on AWS. This latest attack against Clouflare peaked at an astounding 26...
Australian websites impacted by Registry DNS error
24 March 2022 – A number of sites with Australian domain names did not resolve correctly on Tuesday afternoon.
The issue was present for about three hours before it appeared to be resolved.
It was reported that 15,000 major news and government websites were...
.AU experienced 131% increase in DNS queries last FY
AuDA, Australia’s .au regulatory body issued its annual report last week, covering the 20/21 financial year.
During this period, the .au domain name space increased 5% to over 3.34 million domains. .AU recorded over 51,000 new domain name registrations per month, which...
Bug: Hackers could spy on Google, AWS DNS traffic
Security firm Wiz, announced that they had discovered a simple loophole that allows the interception a portion of dynamic DNS traffic from all Internet traffic that was routed through managed DNS providers such as Google and Amazon.
This bug gives anyone the ability to see...
SPF records, from nice to have to must have
SPF records are critical to all businesses, small to enterprise. Have you ever received an email that looks like it is from a Bank but it is actually from a spammer posing as the Bank? This is called a “spoof” email, because it’s quite easy to fake the...
Secondary DNS – why brands should consider it
Secondary DNS often gets overlooked in infrastructure architectural planning. This article looks at the benefits of implementing secondary DNS to an organizations network.
In recent times we have seen major companies experience large scale DNS disruptions through either...
Akamai: Second DNS disruption in a month
Akamai, global leader of content delivery network (CDN) and DNS for media and software delivery, and cloud security solutions went down for the second time in a month. This follows a similar issue with CDN provider, Fastly.
Many websites went offline overnight in an outage...
The benefits of Anycast DNS
The benefits of Anycast DNS
When looking for a reliable DNS solution, you may often come across the term of Anycast and Unicast DNS. This article looks at the benefits of using Anycast vs Unicast, Neustar’s Ultra DNS offering, which is an Anycast DNS solution.
What is Unicast...