Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images When ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people ...

There are so many hackers around these days, and they are becoming very smart. So smart that they have successfully taken down many government websites. The most recent attack was on the Department of ...

We currently have an NT domain, and all computers do not have a primary DNS suffix. We are upgrading to 2003 this month, and one of the tasks to get ready for this is adding a primary DNS suffix to ...

A few days ago, I wrote about the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, free software from Microsoft that can remove the conficker (a.k.a. Downadup and Kido) worm along with other malicious ...

Want to browse the Web faster, without paying extra for more bandwidth? It’s simple to do. Just use one of these three free services to hack the DNS system for faster and more reliable surfing. All ...

July 8, 2012 — -- Planning on using the Internet Monday? You might want to join the thousands of people who are checking their computers to make sure they won't lose connection. The FBI's ...

July 6, 2012— -- The FBI's temporary Internet servers will go dark Monday, leaving thousands of unsuspecting malware-infected individuals without online access. What temporary Internet servers, ...

ExtenBro is a DNS changing Trojan that blocks users from accessing security sites in order to prevent them from downloading antivirus software. When installed, a scheduled task will be created that ...