The Domain Name System (DNS) is crucial to how your users experience the internet. Each time users need to reach a website, their PC needs to translate whatever they type in an address bar into an IP ...

Do you ever wonder how you can click a link on a webpage and quickly zip to another page on a server halfway around the world? Or send an email message to aunt Alice or uncle Bob, using just their ...

For MacOS go to System Preferences -> Network. Choose the current local area connection and hit the Advanced button. Then, go ...

OpenDNS has released a preview of a tool that will encrypt DNS (Domain Name System) requests between a person’s computer and the company’s lookup service, potentially blocking malicious interceptions.

Cloudflare has launched its own consumer Domain Name System (DNS) service that not only promises to keep your browsing history safe, but appears significantly faster than any other DNS service ...

Okay, so this is some geek chow but it’s interesting to follow for those interested in where Amazon is going. They’ve introduced Domain Name Service. DNS is technology that connects the Internet ...

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. The internet is a dangerous place. There are websites that will happily deliver you malware, or display violent or sexual imagery after your child ...

The security community generally agrees on the importance of encrypting private data: Add a passcode to your smartphone. Use a secure messaging app like Signal. Adopt HTTPS web encryption. But a new ...