Companies should focus on securing their networks and educating workers on "safe surfing" habits, to minimize possible security leaks from users switching to Google's public DNS, advised an analyst.

Google has launched its own public domain name system resolver, Google Public DNS, on Thursday, saying that it is designed to speed web browsing and improve security. DNS is the service that converts ...

The Domain Name System, or DNS, is the address book of the Internet. Type in a site name such as www.amazon.com, and DNS servers "resolves" that name into an IP address, which is a set of numbers that ...

Google now wants to be your browser's phone book, launching a DNS service Thursday in hopes that users will let the ad and search giant take over yet another part of their net experience. Browsers ask ...

In an effort to enhance the Web experience and speed things up for users, Google is getting into the DNS business. DNS has privacy and security implications, though ...

Google announced that their public Domain Name System (DNS) service now comes with support for the DNS-over-TLS security protocol which wraps DNS queries and answers using the Transport Layer Security ...

Today Google released its very own DNS service. As someone with an on again off again relationship with OpenDNS, I am intrigued. (For the purposes of this post, I’ll assume you know what DNS is used ...

The Net giant, ever eager for a faster Internet, debuts its Google Public DNS service. With it, Google could become even more central to the Net. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

As reported by Vice, Internet company Comcast urges US lawmakers to go against Google's plans to encrypt DNS (domain name system) data on Chrome. DNS data includes browsing history or the websites ...

Apparently on a quest to to provide every Internet-related service itself, Google has now added the Google Public DNS service. The search giant claims performance benefits for many users (depending on ...

Google is using U.S.-based servers to answer website address queries from Brazil after the country’s president proposed stronger privacy laws, according to an Internet monitoring company. Renesys ...

Comcast has gone on the record to say that it does not track its broadband users’ Web browsing histories, even though the company is lobbying against a Google plan that could make it harder for ISPs ...