Tag Archives: dns
Your Internet Might Shut Off Tomorrow Because of a Virus—Here’s How to Fix It [Video]
Tonight at 12:01 AM EDT Monday July 9th, the Internet is going to become inaccessible for nearly half a million people around the world because of malware called DNS Changer. If your computer is infecte...
The Feds Will Shut off Your Internet If You Don’t Clean Your Computer by July 9 [Trojans]
When the FBI and Estonian authorities finally crushed the DNSChanger Trojan network in January, they set up a temporary DNS exchange to maintain connectivity for the millions of infected users until the...
The Government Says It Can Seize Any .Com Domain [Law]
For months, the US Government has issued court orders in order to seize and shutdown sites—even when the domain names are registered abroad. Now it has made its position on domains perfectly clear...
Why I’ll Never Trust a Human With My Data Again (Updated) [Data]
On Valentine's Day, I may have an unexpected present: My websites might all go dark, and a decade's worth of data may vanish. My host's domain registration is set to expire tomorrow, and the man behind ...
SOPA Legislation Gets Slightly Less Terrible [Sopa]
Score one for the Internet. One of SOPA's most controversial provisions—DNS blocking—will be removed, for now at least, according to one of the act's staunchest supporters, Representative La...
DNSCrypt Encrypts Your DNS Traffic Because There’s Always Someone Out To Get You
We've talked about OpenDNS quite a bit over the years, noting that these guys know what geeks like: free, fast DNS lookups that smooth out the Internet's rough edges and shave seconds off of many web tasks. Now OpenDNS is offering DNSCrypt, a service that completely encrypts your DNS sessions, ensuring that evil ha><0rZ can't see where you're headed on the web. The service also prevents man-in-the-middle DNS attacks. The service also automatically enables OpenDNS on your machine, thereby killing multiple birds with one multi-megabyte OS extension.
Crossbow Vengeance, Tablet Attempts, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post [Video]
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, jus...
It sure doesn't seem like many people have bought Lytro's crazy light-field camera (the one that lets you focus your photos after