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DNS, one of the fundamental protocols of the TCP/IP stack, has evolved over the years to protect against threats and attacks. This study examines the risks associated with DNS and explores recent advancements that contribute towards making…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Levente Csikor , Dinil Mon Divakaran

The DNS (Domain Name System) protocol has been in use since the early days of the Internet. Although DNS as a de facto networking protocol had no security considerations in its early years, there have been many security enhancements, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Abdullah Aydeger , Sanzida Hoque , Engin Zeydan , Kapal Dev

DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) provide the most effective way to fight DNS cache poisoning attacks. Yet, very few DNS resolvers perform DNSSEC validation. Identifying such systems is non-trivial and the existing methods are not suitable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yevheniya Nosyk , Maciej Korczyński , Andrzej Duda

One of the most critical components of the Internet that an attacker could exploit is the DNS (Domain Name System) protocol and infrastructure. Researchers have been constantly developing methods to detect and defend against the attacks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Abdullah Aydeger , Pei Zhou , Sanzida Hoque , Marco Carvalho , Engin Zeydan

The domain name system (DNS) is one of the most important components of today's Internet, and is the standard naming convention between human-readable domain names and machine-routable IP addresses of Internet resources. However, due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Aminollah Khormali , Jeman Park , Hisham Alasmary , Afsah Anwar , David Mohaisen

Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup which is performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surveillance, and censorship. To address these issues, large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sandra Siby , Marc Juarez , Claudia Diaz , Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez , Carmela Troncoso

The Domain Name System (DNS) is central to all Internet user activity, resolving accessed domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. As a result, curious DNS resolvers can learn everything about Internet users' interests. Public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Philip Sjösvärd , Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

High-performance Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in many real-world applications e.g., cloud prediction APIs. Recent advances in model functionality stealing attacks via black-box access (i.e., inputs in, predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Although the Domain Name System (DNS) was designed as a naming system, its features have made it appealing to repurpose it for the deployment of novel systems. One important class of such systems are security enhancements, and this work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Pawel Szalachowski , Adrian Perrig

There is a continuous increase in the sophistication that modern malware exercise in order to bypass the deployed security mechanisms. A typical approach to evade the identification and potential takedown of a botnet command and control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Constantinos Patsakis , Fran Casino , Vasilios Katos

DNS dynamic updates represent an inherently vulnerable mechanism deliberately granting the potential for any host to dynamically modify DNS zone files. Consequently, this feature exposes domains to various security risks such as domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yevheniya Nosyk , Maciej Korczyński , Carlos H. Gañán , Michał Król , Qasim Lone , Andrzej Duda

The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a foundational role in Internet infrastructure, yet its core protocols remain vulnerable to compromise by quantum adversaries. As cryptographically relevant quantum computers become a realistic threat,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Juyoul Lee , Sanzida Hoque , Abdullah Aydeger , Engin Zeydan

Most TLS clients such as modern web browsers enforce coarse-grained TLS security configurations. They support legacy versions of the protocol that have known design weaknesses, and weak ciphersuites that provide fewer security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Eman Salem Alashwali , Pawel Szalachowski

The domain name system (DNS) is an important protocol in today's Internet operation, and is the standard naming convention between domain names, names that are easy to read, understand, and remember by humans, to IP address of Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Ah Reum Kang , Jeffrey Spaulding , Aziz Mohaisen

The Domain Name System (DNS) is essential for the Internet, giving a mechanism to resolve hostnames into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS is known as the world's largest distributed database that manages hostnames and Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hassnain ul hassan , Rizal Mohd Nor , Md Amiruzzaman , Sharyar Wani , Md. Rajibul Islam

The current Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure faces critical vulnerabilities including poisoning attacks, censorship mechanisms, and centralized points of failure that compromise internet freedom and security. Recent incidents such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Guang Yang , Peter Trinh , Alma Nkemla , Amuru Serikyaku , Edward Tatchim , Osman Sharaf

Federated Learning systems are increasingly subjected to a multitude of model poisoning attacks from clients. Among these, edge-case attacks that target a small fraction of the input space are nearly impossible to detect using existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kiran Purohit , Soumi Das , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Santu Rana

Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service of Service (DDoS) attacks are commonly used to disrupt network services. Attack techniques are always improving and due to the structure of the internet and properties of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jonah Burgess

The domain name system translates human friendly web addresses to a computer readable internet protocol address. This basic infrastructure is insecure and can be manipulated. Deployment of technology to secure the DNS system has been slow,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Robert Robinson

Enterprise Networks are growing in scale and complexity, with heterogeneous connected assets needing to be secured in different ways. Nevertheless, virtually all connected assets use the Domain Name System (DNS) for address resolution, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Jawad Ahmed