A DNS server – short for Domain Name System server – helps your web browser connect to the internet and load websites properly.

Whether it’s a digital exploit or a physical break-in, every entryway into your hospital systems must be secured; DNS is no exception.

The company says the Amazon Web Services outage that disrupted online activity for a large portion of the internet on Monday was likely caused by errors related to its domain name system.

The makers of BIND, the Internet’s most widely used software for resolving domain names, are warning of two vulnerabilities that allow attackers to poison entire caches of results and send users to malicious destinations that are indistinguishable from the real ones.

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online services on Monday.