DNS redirection (or DNS hijacking, depending on who you ask) is now officially "Comcastic!" after the cable company yesterday began a nationwide deployment of its "Domain Helper" service. The new ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has assured that its directive to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect domain name system (DNS) traffic using third ...

Domain operator VeriSign has been granted a patent that describes a way to resolve unregistered domains to a parked page for advertising or registration purposes. Ironically, however, VeriSign agreed ...

Twitter has said an attack on Thursday which took the site offline for many users was the result of a DNS redirect. A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army redirected users to a defacement page ...

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has instructed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect Domain Name Service (DNS) traffic that uses ...

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chief sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act, said Friday he is removing a major provision of his bill that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight ...

CYBERJAYA, Sept 7 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has assured that its directive to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect domain name system (DNS) ...

PETALING JAYA: According to an FAQ posted by Maxis, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is requiring all Internet service providers to implement public DNS (Domain Name ...

For a couple of hours yesterday, Comcast's Internet Portal (comcast.net) had its DNS records hijacked and a defaced web On 28-May-2008 23:05:43 EDT Comcast.net's WHOIS records were hijacked, and were ...