DNS SERVER

Internet outages in India on June 18 affected over 45,000 Reliance Jio users and 9,000 Bharti Airtel users due to DNS server downtime, impacting popular applications like WhatsApp and Facebook.

An operating system is the backbone of any computer. So it's no wonder that productivity can drastically increase when an operating system is secure, fast, and user-friendly.

Users attempting to access certain websites got '500 Internal Server Error' message and many took to social media to report the disruption. The services were restored after the brief disruption.

India has more than 270 million VPN users, who use them to access company networks securely, remain anonymous, access geo-restricted content, stay safe on public Wi-Fi networks and get around internet restrictions among other things.

Apple was hit with similar outages earlier this week that knocked off services like its mobile App Store and music streaming service.

While Facebook attributed the six-hour-long outage to faulty configuration changes at its servers, researchers have cited issues relating to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as the reason for the downtime.

The recent public scrutiny and frenzy have primarily been due to simultaneous unverified media reports which claimed that the system was used to target activists, journalists, and several others. The frenzy was compounded by subsequent reports of ar...

Business security as well as individual liberty both favour VPNs. America’s National Security Agency does not let VPNs hinder its work. Nor should India’s.

Microsoft said in its status page that the Domain Name System (DNS) issue was resolved and that all Microsoft 365 services had returned to a healthy state.

India ranked No. 1 in IPv6 with nearly 60% adoption, followed by Belgium (58%). Thanks to Reliance Jio's greenfield network that holds 91.8% of the IPv6 subscriber base, capturing second position to T-Mobile (92.3%).

With a DDoS attack, an adversary hopes to disrupt their victim's service with a flood of useless traffic. While this attack doesn't expose user data and doesn't lead to a compromise, it can result in an outage and loss of user trust if not quickly m...

Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued advisories to the effect that none of the banned Chinese apps should be available in any form. It has also banned close to 47 clones that have come up in the weeks fo...

The govt plans a new and robust platform in the wake of critical digital services being delivered online.

The maintenance work to be undertaken by the ICANN will help protect the internet's address book popularly known as the Domain Name System (DNS).

More by circumstance than intention, the US has always had ultimate say over how the DNS is controlled - but not for much longer, the BBC reported today.

This day last week, the cyber world was speculating on how many people would lose their access to websites after the much-publicized shutdown by the FBI of rogue servers set up by fraudsters.

WikiLeaks' American domain name system provider, EveryDNS, has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name after the secret-spilling website once again became the target of hack attacks.