IT admins have the thankless task of having to watchdog devices, hosts, and networks for signs of malicious activity. Host intrusion detection and endpoint protection may be “must have” security ...
In an effort to detect whether a network will hijack DNS queries, Google's Chrome browser and its Chromium-based brethren randomly conjures up three domain names between 7 and 15 characters to test, ...
Each time you open a browser and type in a web address, there’s a hidden hand sending all the information to your PC to render the page as it should. Those middle-men of your newly loaded webpage are ...
Browser VPN extensions for Google Chrome may be leaking DNS queries to external observers thanks to a Chrome feature called DNS prefetching. DNS prefetching works when Chrome makes DNS requests before ...
A unique attack called DNSMessenger uses DNS queries to carry out malicious PowerShell commands on compromised computers. A unique attack called DNSMessenger uses DNS queries to carry out malicious ...