Tag: ROOTSERVERS

DNS hijacking and poisoning has been around since the dawn of time -- it just didn't enter the popular media until recent high-profile attacks on Twitter, Baidu, and the success of China's Golden Shield Project. Basically, DNS in its current form is incredibly insecure when compared to corporate infrastructure. With DNS hacks it's very easy to set up pharming (think 'farming' combined with ...

IPv6 authoritative nameserver records are in the process of being added to six of the world's thirteen DNS root servers. Root servers are the computers at the top of the DNS hierarchy that are crucial in helping you turn downloadsquad.com into an IP address for your computer's benefit. This change means that networks using IPv6 will be able to use the root servers to resolve Internet hostnames ...