Security researchers have discovered a major flaw in the DNS system that could “completely disable" large parts of the worldwide Internet for extended periods of time.
Cybersecurity researchers from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Goethe University Frankfurt, Fraunhofer SIT, and the Technical University of Darmstadt, recently found a flaw in the Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC), a security protocol that adds an additional protection layer to the Domain Name System (DNS).
