If you use Google's Public DNS server or OpenDNS as your DNS server, you may notice starting today that YouTube videos load faster and other web content comes in quicker. If you're using your ISP's ...

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB), author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying ...

Free DNS provider OpenDNS announced a free IPv6-based DNS sandbox for IT professionals interested in experimenting with the next-generation Internet technology. The free DNS recursive service ...

If you've heard or seen the term DNS or DNS server on your computer, you may be wondering what it means, and how it affects your internet.

DNS servers resolve web address names to IP addresses that your computer can use, but problems with these servers may result in performance issues. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

Nearly 40 million Internet users will experience faster Web browsing starting today, thanks to a protocol tweak being deployed by Google, OpenDNS and several content delivery networks that allows them ...

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 ...

When I first read that some Apple TV users were seeing significant speed-ups when they start using a local ISP Domain Name System (DNS) server instead of continuing to use one of the universal DNS ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rather than installing separate software on every device, DNS web filtering makes it easy to protect every internet-enabled gadget in ...

OpenDNS has released a preview of a tool that will encrypt DNS (Domain Name System) requests between a person’s computer and the company’s lookup service, potentially blocking malicious interceptions.

In my recent Editors’ Notes post on Consumer Reports’ recommendation that Mac users dump Safari because the Apple browser lacks the anti-phishing tools of Firefox and Opera, I focused on behavioral ...

No matter how big the broadband pipe you use to surf the Web, it’s not big enough. Everyone, whether they use a slowpoke dial-up modem or the fastest FiOS line, wants to surf faster. There’s a simple ...