All versions of Windows Server from 2003 to 2019 are vulnerable to a newly identified vulnerability, dubbed SigRed, in Windows DNS, the domain name system service provided by Microsoft in Windows ...

Windows has an inbuilt command line tool – nslookup. It can be used to diagnose the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. It needs TCP/IP installed on your computer to work. The only drawback here ...

The critical remote code execution security vulnerability in Windows DNS known as SIGRed has received a micropatch for servers without an Extended Security Updates (ESU) license. SIGRed can be ...

A critical vulnerability that’s been sitting in Microsoft’s Windows DNS Server for almost two decades could be exploited to gain Domain Administrator privileges and compromise the entire corporate ...

DNS traffic is prone to snooping, and it’s often far too easy for attackers to hijack and change a company’s DNS settings. These simple steps will amp up your DNS protection. Domain Name System (DNS) ...

DNS over TLS or DoT is an encrypted DNS protocol. It is considered an alternative to DNS over HTTPS (DoH). In this post, we will see how you can enable DNS over TLS in Windows 11 and what this ...

When I first started doing freelance technical writing 10 years ago, I realized pretty quickly that I was going to need to set up a network in my home so that I could experiment with the various ...

The trailing . tells nslookup to append whatever your default domain/search domain is to the host lookup. Basically it is saying 'lookup www.portfolioplanner.fidelity.co.uk. (com)' or whatever domain ...