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 ...

The big picture: The domain name lookup process is one of the most significant holes in network security. Despite being crucial for translating human-friendly web addresses into IP numbers that ...

The default event logging in Windows 10 won't give you enough information to properly conduct intrusion forensics. These settings and tools will help you collect the needed log data. After a ...

You can edit the hosts file with any text editor. There are a variety available, but both Windows 10 and 11 come with Notepad ...

Why it matters: DNS is one of the last protocols that run unencrypted on the Internet. Microsoft is trying to fix that on Windows by enabling DNS over HTTPS support. This allows DNS queries to be ...

Microsoft has outlined its plans for supporting the encryption of Domain Name System queries, which allows for more private internet browsing. The feature, known as DNS over HTTPS, or DoH, encrypts ...

If the DNS server is not able to create a new DNS Zone, and you see Event ID 504 in the Event Viewer of your Windows computer, execute the solutions mentioned below: Often, information for the zone ...

In a post yesterday to the Microsoft Tech Community blog, Microsoft Windows Core Networking team members Tommy Jensen, Ivan Pashov, and Gabriel Montenegro announced that Microsoft is planning to adopt ...

We have a Windows 2003 server that serves DNS requests to our clients. It caches web requests. We're seeing a strange issue crop up from time to time and right now it's easily reproducible - external ...