For Those Who Are More Tech-Savvy: Embrace Public DNS
DNS (Domain Name System) is the Internet's way of translating our English worded web addresses into the Internet's language of numbered IP Addresses. For example, typing in 64.254.132.212 into your web browser will take you to www.mytechexperts.com just like typing the actual web address would. To…
OpenDNS Security Labs has developed a new way to automatically detect and block sites used to distribute malware almost instantaneously without having to scan them. The approach uses natural language processing and other analytics to detect malicious domains before they can attack by spotting host names that are designed as camouflage. Called NLPRank, it spots…
There is a new bill that has been introduced in the House of Representatives last month that could damage the Internet as we know it.SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, was designed with good intentions in mind. The goal of the bill is to force ISP’s and DNS providers to remove entries of websites…