BestInternetSecurity.net

Information Security Resources

Entries Tagged ‘DNS’

DNS Root Servers’ Attack: Is it possible?

Apr.08, 2008 in Attack Methodologies, Network Security

The Domain Name System (DNS) relies on a hierarchical database system. At the top of this system sit thirteen root servers with names following the format letter.root-servers.net, where the letter ranges from A to M. Many people mistakenly assume that there are only 13 root servers in the world. In fact, each root server notation […]

Comments (1)

DNS – Domain name system security issues

Mar.31, 2008 in Attack Methodologies, Cryptography, Network Security

Domain Name System (DNS) is the magical ability of Internet hosts to translate the machine-readable IP address numbers like 216.109.112.135 to something meaningful to humans, like www.yahoo.com. A sophisticated hierarchical database system in the Internet is required to accomplish this task. One of the core components of that system is the DNS server, which serves […]

Leave a Comment

  

Good Day!

Welcome to the best information of Internet Security. You can find a lot of useful discussion about how to protect your computing resources, both at home and in the office. In fact, I'd better call our topic here Information Security rather than Internet Security. It is about protecting your precious information.