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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]