The certificates are a key part of the Transport Layer Protocol. They contain the private key used to digitally sign domains to certify they rightfully belong to the entity claiming ownership or control. The private…
Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses. The practice allows malicious…
Getty Images Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all, lookups are rarely end-to-end encrypted. The servers providing domain name lookups provide translations for virtually…
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ExpressVPN has temporarily suspended use of its split-tunneling feature on its Windows app due to a bug that wasn’t properly directing DNS requests to its servers. The bug was initially discovered by CNET’s Attila Tomaschek,…