New Proposed DNS Security Features Released

[TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( November 19, 2020 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [New Proposed DNS Security Features Released]( Verisign's R&D team has developed new ways to authenticate and optimize DNS traffic on the client side of the domain-name resolution process. [Unpatched Browsers Abound, Study Shows]( Google Chrome users don't always take time to relaunch browser updates, and some legacy applications don't support new versions of Chrome, Menlo Security says. [Ransomware Operator Promotes Distributed Storage for Stolen Data]( The criminals behind the DarkSide ransomware-as-a-service operation say the system will be harder to take down. [Researchers Say They've Developed Fastest Open Source IDS/IPS]( With a five-processor core, "Pigasus" delivers the same performance as a system with between 100 and 700 cores, according to a team from Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab. 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