Google has gone live with a Public DNS service, which offers increased speed and security for domain name lookups completely free of charge.

A bug in the ZoneAlarm personal firewall package left users without a working 'net connection this Tuesday after a patch was released for DNS resolution by Microsoft.

SecureComputing has reported a new variant of the DNSChanger trojan, a nasty bug which attempts to reconfigure your broadband router to point at compromised DNS servers.

CardSpace, the authentication system provided with .NET Framework 3.0, suffers from the same security shortcomings as its predecessor according to a German research team.

A cracker group calling itself Kryogeniks has taken responsibility for an attack on the DNS records of US cable giant Comcast, resulting in the downing of its main website on Wednesday.