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The good, the bad and the ugly of DNS security on the Internet

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The good, the bad and the ugly of DNS security on the Internet

The Measurement Factory's fifth annual DNS Survey results show an increasing number of name servers on the Internet that are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks. Read full story

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