Dns - TechSpot

dns articles

Posted December 10, 2012, 6:12 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web Breaking News
As the second major tech site to experience widespread downtime today, Facebook appears to be recovering from an outage that has lasted for more than an hour. Early into the interruption, users believed the problem pertained to a DNS issue.…
- Read More
- Comments 4

Posted September 4, 2012, 3:34 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, The Web
Online services like Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Spotify and many others have brought upon an era of instant, on-demand digital media consumption in a world where linear programming, bundled content, and physical formats no longer fit many people's lives.

Unfortunately this is a revolution not everyone can partake in (not yet or not as easily, at least). In this article we’ll offer you three alternatives to get around region locks. Each has their advantages and disadvantages and whichever route you choose will depend on the services you need to access as well as the devices you need to access them from -- not to mention whether you are willing to pay or not.
- Read More
- Comments 20

Posted July 5, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web Breaking News
July 9 is the day thousands of PCs (and Macs) infected with DNSChanger will lose their ability to surf the web. Although the virus was introduced in 2007, according to the DCWG's data, as many as 500,000 computers may still…
- Read More
- Comments 29

Posted May 25, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Google has begun providing a warning to visitors who appear to be infected with DNSChanger, a malware which attempts to redirect users to various websites by modifying their DNS settings. The notification is a highly visible alert which tells the…
- Read More
- Comments 11

Posted March 13, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
The Wikimedia Foundation announced it has ditched GoDaddy in favor of a new domain registrar. The foundation claims it had been mulling over the idea for some time as their legal department believed GoDaddy was a poor fit for Wikimedia,…
- Read More
- Comments 10

Posted February 16, 2012, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web, IT Security
In three weeks, the FBI could knock millions of infected systems offline by disabling some DNS servers. In November, Estonian authorities arrested six men suspected of using "DNSChanger Trojan" malware to redirect victims to malicious websites and block them from genuine…
- Read More
- Comments 16

Posted January 12, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
In the wake of .xxx domains becoming reality, ICANN, the entity which governs Internet domain names, has begun accepting applicants today for custom top-level domains. Instead of being restricted to .com, .net, .info and the like, companies now have the…
- Read More
- Comments 5

Posted December 27, 2011, 2:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, The Web
GoDaddy, the domain management and web hosting company suffered a rather bleak Christmas weekend after it became public news that the company was supporting SOPA. The company lost more than 37,000 domains in just a couple of days and that number…
- Read More
- Comments 12

Posted December 22, 2011, 9:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
As resistance grows against the Stop Online Piracy Act, some activists are getting creative. If passed, the legislation would allow US Internet service providers to block access to offending domain names at the behest of Hollywood -- that's the gist of it, anyway...
- Read More
- Comments 22