“Cyber criminals are sending over three billion emails a day as part of phishing attacks designed to look like they come from trusted senders.”
NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers
“The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network information.”
Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
“Cloudflare is proposing a new DNS standard it developed with Apple that’s designed to help close a blindspot in my (and I’m sure many others’) internet privacy measures (via TechCrunch).”
Uncle Sam to agencies: No encrypted DNS for you!
“The US federal government has been protecting its users by blocking malicious destinations for years, but it won’t let them take advantage of the latest protective measure in DNS – encryption – just yet.”
Why You Shouldn’t Use Your ISP’s Default DNS Server
“Your computers, phones, and other devices normally use the Domain Name System (DNS) server with which the router is configured. Unfortunately, this is often the one provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). These lack privacy features and also might be slower than some alternatives.”
Cloudflare introduces free DNS resolvers for blocking malware and adult content
“Cloudflare is mostly known as a B2B company working on speeding up and protecting websites (including our own), but in recent years, the web-infrastructure business has pivoted to consumers. It offers a VPN app on Android and lets anyone use its DNS lookup service 1.1.1.”
Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone’s favorite auditor – KPMG
“Two years ago, network infrastructure biz Cloudflare launched the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver, with the promise that internet users could use the service to surf the internet without being tracked – by Cloudflare at least.”
DNS-over-HTTPS causes more problems than it solves, experts say
“The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is not the privacy panacea that many have been advocating in recent months.”
Firefox Plans Controversial New Encryption Setting For Millions, And Update Starts This Month
“The company assured in its blogpost that “most of our users will benefit from the greater protections of encrypted DNS traffic,” but there was also a recognition at some of the backlash against the new technology.”
Gmail, Netflix and PayPal Users Targeted In DNS Hijacking Campaign
“On Friday (5 April), it emerged that home routers such as those manufactured by D-Link were being targeted by DNS hijacking. Security researchers at Bad Packets identified three waves which took place between December last year and the end of March this year, detailed in a blog.”
