DNS

Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws

Updated Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin'

CSO26 Mar 2024 | 11

Nominet to restructure, slash jobs after losing 'major deal'

Prices also set to rise after being frozen since 2020

Networks21 Mar 2024 | 43

Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC

Updated 'You don't have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network' El Reg told as patches emerge

Patches13 Feb 2024 | 15

Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up

It's not hip to be this Square

Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8

Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe

Infosec in brief ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec's wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings

Security21 Aug 2023 | 11

Microsoft opens up Defender threat intel library with file hash, URL search

Surprised there's no ChatGPT angle and that it's not called MalwareTotal

Security18 Apr 2023 | 1

Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches

Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes

OSes28 Jan 2023 | 4

If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement

It’s not Google's plan. There’s no way it’s Google's plan. It was Google's plan

Networks19 Jan 2023 | 84

He's only gone and done it. Ex-Register vulture elected to board of .uk registry

Kieren's here to chew bubblegum and kick Nominet ass. And he's all out of bubblegum

Networks07 Oct 2022 | 46

Two thirds of DNS queries for IPv6 hosts sent to Chinese resolvers fail, researchers find

Network boffins can't say why, suggest not using the worst providers

Off-Prem18 Aug 2022 | 8

Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia

Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world

Security27 Jul 2022 | 31

Client demo in 30 minutes. Just what could go wrong?

On Call DNS means Do Not Shove under desk

Networks18 Mar 2022 | 94

Russia acknowledges sanctions could hurt its tech companies

Cuts taxes, offers subsidies, defers military service for developers – and preps for internet isolation

Off-Prem07 Mar 2022 | 57

ICANN responds to Ukraine demand to delete all Russian domains

Even if we wanted to, which we don't, we can't, so we won't, says boss

Networks03 Mar 2022 | 44

Big Tech's private networks and protocols threaten the 'net, say internet registries

APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking

Off-Prem09 Dec 2021 | 5

Infosec bods: After more than a year, Sky gets round to squashing hijacking bug in 6m home broadband routers

In brief Plus: DNS cache poisoning again, cops probe property conveyancing group's IT outage, Azure hole addressed, and more

Security23 Nov 2021 | 15

BT promises firmware update for Mini Whole Home Wi-Fi discs to prevent obsessive Big Tech DNS lookups

Meanwhile users complain their IPs are being flagged for suspicious traffic

Networks11 Jun 2021 | 24

If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage

Updated It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS

SaaS01 Apr 2021 | 37

Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion

That’s a 41 per cent traffic relief for all concerned

Networks04 Feb 2021 | 74

Dnsmasq, used in only a million or more internet-facing devices globally, patches not-so-secret seven spoofing, hijacking flaws

Get your updates when you can for gear from scores of manufacturers

Security20 Jan 2021 | 13

Brit registrar 123-Reg begins 2021 in much the same way it ended 2020 – with DNS issues

Not quite what we meant by 'record-breaking'

Networks07 Jan 2021 | 13

Oblivious DoH, OPAQUE passwords, Encrypted Client Hello: Cloudflare's protocol proposals to protect privacy

'Adopting these may have legal and policy implications'

Security08 Dec 2020 | 28

Crooks social-engineer GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names

Web traffic, email redirected, personal info exposed in DNS hijacking

Security23 Nov 2020 | 42

123 Bork? Six-day DNS record-edit outage at domain name flinger 123 Reg enrages users

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS. It's actually a TITSUP*

Networks11 Nov 2020 | 39

Angry 123-Reg customers in the UK wake up to another day where hosted mail doesn't get through to users on Microsoft email accounts

Our own customers think we're ignoring them, say irate business owners

SaaS08 Sep 2020 | 47

FYI: Chromium's network probing accounts for about half DNS root server traffic, says APNIC

Detecting ISP shenanigans has led to a constant deluge of packets

Networks21 Aug 2020 | 51

Finally, made it to the weekend, time to breathe, relax, and... Cloudflare's taken down a chunk of the web

Updated DNS provider goes dark amid bad routing, world+dog goes through nine minutes of terror

Networks17 Jul 2020 | 17

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Exclusive DNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief

Security07 Jul 2020 | 20

Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Comcast to handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-using subscribers

Last November: These ISPs know too much! June: God bless the ISPs

Security26 Jun 2020 | 28

DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline

Microsoft, BIND, Google, Cloudflare, Amazon, others fix up software or offer workarounds

Security21 May 2020 | 19

Now we know what the P really stands for in PwC: X-rated ads plastered over derelict corner of accountants' website

Naughty posters on hijacked subdomain show up in search results

Security06 May 2020 | 39

Canada's .ca overlord rolls out free privacy-protecting DNS-over-HTTPS service for folks in Great White North

L’ACEI lance le Bouclier canadien dans le but de protéger gratuitement la vie privée et la sécurité des Canadiens en ligne

Security23 Apr 2020 | 19

Baby, I swear it's déjà vu: TalkTalk customers unable to opt out of ISP's ad-jacking DNS – just like six years ago

Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again? Yes!

Networks20 Apr 2020 | 90

Linksys forces password reset for Smart Wi-Fi accounts after router DNS hack pointed users at COVID-19 malware

Firm blames successful cred-stuffing attack for customer pwnage

Security15 Apr 2020 | 19

After 20-year battle, Channel island Sark finally earns the right to exist on the internet with its own top-level domain

Special report We talk to the guy who spent decades trying to make it happen

Legal23 Mar 2020 | 58

Hackers? Leap day? Nope, just plain old internet hysteria took down stock-trading-for-noobs app RobinHood

DNS overload, as usual, blamed for two-day outage

Networks05 Mar 2020 | 15

Download this update from mybrowser.microsoft.com. Oh, sorry, that was malware on a hijacked sub-domain. Oops

Lax DNS leaves door wide open for miscreants to impersonate Windows giant on its own websites

Security04 Mar 2020 | 26

Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet

Updated Probe raises serious questions about private v public web management

Networks26 Feb 2020 | 36

Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems at risk of remote hijacking, eggheads fear

Updated It's got a name and logo so it's serious, you guys

Security10 Jan 2020 | 27

Microsoft joins Google and Mozilla in adopting DNS over HTTPS data security protocol

Some concerned it hands too much power to too few

Networks19 Nov 2019 | 58

DoH! Mozilla assures UK minister that DNS-over-HTTPS won't be default in Firefox for Britons

As Reg readers will know, you'll have to click a few buttons first

Security24 Sep 2019 | 58

Rolling in DoH: Chrome 78 to experiment with DNS-over-HTTPS – hot on the heels of Firefox

Google promises it won't override your choice of DNS provider

Security10 Sep 2019 | 51

Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it

Extending DNS security protocol to multiple platforms takes root

Networks15 Aug 2019 | 3

Sea Turtle hackers head to the Mediterranean, snag Greece's TLD registrar as a souvenir

Chance to hack Hellenic targets better than a bottle of Metaxa

Security11 Jul 2019 | 3

RIP Dyn Dynamic DNS :'( Oracle to end Dyn-asty by axing freshly gobbled services, shoving customers into its cloud

Meanwhile, staff face cuts – and doesnotexist.com may not exist by next year

Networks25 Jun 2019 | 80

Insane in the domain: Sea Turtle hackers pwn DNS orgs to dash web surfers on the rocks of phishing pages

Website settings altered to point visitors to malicious clones

Security17 Apr 2019 | 15

Amazon may finally get its hands on .amazon after world's DNS overseer loses patience

ICANN tired of delay tactics from Brazil and Peru

Legal12 Mar 2019 | 60

Arrcus looks to 400G future, Tonga stuck on satellite connection, and Linux Foundation's new edge computing effort

Roundup Plus more of the week's networking nuggets

OSes28 Jan 2019 | 2

We did Nazi see this coming... Internet will welcome Earth's newest nation with, sigh, a brand new .SS TLD

Well, banned fascist symbols are all the rage these days

Legal24 Jan 2019 | 200

Build the wall... around your DNS settings, US govt IT staff urged by Homeland Security amid domain hijackings

Anyone still at their posts, please stop these address takeovers... please, helloo? Anyone there?

Security23 Jan 2019 | 19

Lords of the DNS remind admins about Flag Day, Juniper likes Watson and more

Roundup PING, PING, PING … it's your networking roundup for the week

Networks18 Jan 2019 | 11

Baddies linked to Iran fingered for DNS hijacking to read Middle Eastern regimes' emails

'Almost unprecedented' attacks use the old man-in-the-middle diddle – infoseccers

Security10 Jan 2019 | 14

Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway

Registrar apologies as punters wait for spam tsunami

Security02 Nov 2018 | 19

It's been a week since engineers approved a new DNS encryption standard and everyone is still yelling

DoH or DoT? Punch-up time!

Networks30 Oct 2018 | 96

In the two years since Dyn went dark, what have we learned? Not much, it appears

DNS infrastructures still vulnerable to attacks

Security11 Oct 2018 | 26

DNSSEC in a click: Cloudflare tries to crack uptake inertia

Meanwhile global key rollover is confirmed for October 11

Networks18 Sep 2018 | 16