Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no matter how fast their connection. Then came the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) Ukraine’s request to cut Russia off from core parts of the Internet has been rejected by the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). CEO Göran Marby of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) said the group must “maintain neutrality and act in […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) A Ukraine government official on Monday asked the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) to shut down DNS root servers in Russia and revoke Russian domains such as. ru,. рф, and. su. The letter to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from users who couldn’t use the social media giant’s apps and services. But beyond the obvious inconvenience to those cut off from these services, […]
Enlarge / Today’s global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. (credit: Sean Gladwell via Getty Images / Jim Salter ) Facebook—and apparently all the major services Facebook owns—are down today. We first noticed the problem at about 11: 30 […]
Enlarge / “Dude, it can’t be DNS. ” “How much you wanna bet? ” (credit: PeopleImages via Getty Images ) A massive Internet outage today has downdetector. com covered in warnings for popular websites and services, such as the PlayStation Network, Steam, Fidelity Investments, Airbnb, FedEx, LastPass, UPS, Amazon, plus others. The root cause of […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) DNS over HTTPS is a new protocol that protects domain-lookup traffic from eavesdropping and manipulation by malicious parties. Rather than an end-user device communicating with a DNS server over a plaintext channel—as DNS has done for more than three decades—DoH, as DNS over HTTPS is known, encrypts requests and responses using […]
Expand (charge: Henrik 5000 / / Getty Images) In 2008, researcher Dan Kaminsky shown among the more serious online security threats: a weakness from the domain name system which made it possible for visitors to send consumers en masse into imposter websites rather than the actual ones belonging to Google, Bank of America, or anybody […]