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DNS Blocking Effectiveness: Recent Independent Tests
Quad9’s DNS blocking service has recently been part of an independent test done to compare various DNS-based blocking systems.
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Cyber Peace Institute Panel: Increased need for cybersecurity on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19
The health care sector is on the front lines of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and protecting their networks is an important part of our need for increased cybersecurity right now.
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Quad9 Sees Massive Growth in Blocked DNS Volume
Quad9’s free, open recursive DNS service blocks hosts, which contain malware, phishing, botnets, spyware, and a variety of other risks that try to defraud end-users, or harm their computers or networks. Millions of users around the world use Quad9’s free DNS recursive resolvers (9.9.9.9/149.112.112.112) to map hostnames to IP addresses as part of almost every Internet transaction.
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Help: My New COVID-19 Site is Getting Blocked!
In times such as these, bad cyber-actors will also emerge. We’ve been alerted to a rise in phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks from a number of our Threat Intelligence Providers and public sources such as; EFF, IBM, and DomainTools. Rest assured, we are working to protect our global user base and add these malicious sites into our Block List as quickly as possible.
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Quad9 Helps Protect You While Working From Home…Oh, and All the Other Times Too!
As physical offices and schools shut down worldwide, people are rapidly relying more and more on a home-based telecommuting environment. Security protections once provided by enterprise or school network administrators must be available to the home network.
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Quad9 Connect now available on Google Play
We are delighted to announce the open release of Quad9 Connect – a mobile app allowing the more than 2.5 billion global users of smartphones built on Android to use our free security and privacy-driven recursive DNS service to block access to malicious websites and maximize web browsing privacy while using an Android mobile device.
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DNSCrypt and more DOH Support Live (via dnscrypt)
The Quad9 project treats user privacy as a first-order priority along with performance and security. Part of the concept of privacy is keeping others from seeing what DNS requests you are sending.
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Quad9 and DNS Flag Day
Some of you may have seen announcements of Quad9’s participation in the industry-wide “DNS Flag Day” event, slated for February 1, 2019.
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DoH with Quad9 DNS Servers
DoH is a secure DNS protocol that is getting a lot of traction lately. Mozilla announced support for it in their Firefox browser and Google recently announced support for developers and Alphabet through Jigsaw released the Intra app for Android.
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