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Real-world Examples Of Emerging DNS Attacks and How We Must Adapt

The Domain Name System, or DNS, is the protocol that translates human-friendly URLs into machine-friendly IP addresses. Essentially, it’s the phone book of the internet. This makes DNS a critical component of business operations, requiring firewalls to let it pass through and preventing network operators from blocking DNS traffic. As a result, it has become a prime target for threat actors who have successfully deployed various DNS-based attacks against company networks over the years....

May 12, 2021

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