- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 3rd, 2013
KickassTorrents, Kat.ph Is Down in the US due to a DNS Problem, It's Being Fixed
Thankfully for US pirates, the site hasn't been blocked there yet
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 19th, 2013
Google's Public DNS Service Now Supports the Secured DNSSEC
Offering better protection against some types of DNS attacks
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 4th, 2013
Router Issue Takes Down CloudFlare and 785,000 Websites with It
CloudFlare was fighting off a DDoS attack when the issue occurred
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 23rd, 2013
Number of Open DNS Resolvers Down by 30%, CloudFlare Says
Misconfigured resolvers are abused by cybercriminals to amplify DDOS attacks
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- December 11th, 2012
Russia Drops Proposal to Regulate Domain Names at ITU Conference Reuters
But there are still plenty of things that could go wrong
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- December 10th, 2012
Russia, China and the UAE Want to Control DNS and Domain Names Now As Well
The ITU conference is proceeding and things are looking worse and worse
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Silviu Stahie
- December 5th, 2012
Popular DNS Software BIND 9.9.2-P1 Includes Tons of Fixes
The latest version of BIND can be downloaded from Softpedia
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- November 23rd, 2012
Cybercriminals Hack DNS Records of Go Daddy Sites to Distribute Ransomware
The hackers are most likely using compromised credentials to achieve their goal
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 12th, 2012
Facebook European Outage Caused by DNS Misconfiguration
The problem has been resolved and everyone can get their Facebook fix
- Incidents
- By Eduard Kovacs
- October 1st, 2012
Cybercriminals Hijack 4.5 Million ADLS Modems in Brazil to Serve Malware
Researcher Fabio Assolini presents the details of a major cybercriminal operation
- Server related
- By Eduard Kovacs
- September 18th, 2012
CloudFlare Explains 65 Gbps DDOS Attacks and How They Can Be Stopped
Open DNS resolvers allow cybercriminals to launch attacks of this magnitude
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 13th, 2012
CloudFlare Serving 70 Billion Page Views Monthly to 600 Million Uniques
The CDN now services 500,000 sites and keeps on growing
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 13th, 2012
GoDaddy Apologizes for Outage, Offers One Month for Free
An outage potentially affected millions of sites hosted by GoDaddy
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 11th, 2012
GoDaddy's Massive Meltdown Was Not Caused by Anonymous but by Networking Issues
The company has finally issued an official statement with more details on the outage
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 11th, 2012
Millions of GoDaddy Sites Down for Hours, Possibly Due to DDoS Attack on DNS Servers
The service has been restored and no user data has been compromised
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- July 9th, 2012
300,000 Computers May Be Cut Off from the Internet Today
Thanks to the DNSChanger trojan that affected some four million PCs at its peak
- Virus alerts
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 6th, 2012
Tick Tock: It’s Lights Out for DNSChanger-Infected Computers on July 9 (Video)
Some ISPs will make sure that their customers will have Internet access even after Monday