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Windows Insiders can now test DNS over HTTPS

If you have been waiting to try DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Windows 10, you’re in luck: the first testable version is now available to Windows Insiders!

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Quad9 Executive Director Joins Cyber Peace Institute Panel on Protecting the Health Care Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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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DomainTools Announces Domain Hotlist: An Important Component to the Quad9 Family of Threat Intelligence Sources

As part of our continuous effort to create a safer Internet, Quad9 is proud to support DomainTools‘ Domain Hotlist – a “predictive, prioritized, and easily consumable block list that identifies active, high-risk domains.” Since Quad9 embedded Domain Hotlist to its service it has blocked nearly 35.8 million DNS requests to bad domains, establishing it as a top-producing data source.

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COVID-19: Top 10 security tips for work from home

With most of the world under lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak, many are restricted to stay at home and continue their work online. However, it is imperative the employee takes proper measures so the system is secured for making video conference... Read full article [here](https://www.deccanherald.com/specials/covid-19-top-10-security-tips-for-work-from-home-820795.html).

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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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Eliminating the pains of internet security attacks! Non-profit organization Quad9 aims to become a global security shield.

Many people think that security protection is very critical. However, when it comes to paying for security services, most people would then hesitate. It is often until they become the prey of security attacks that they would do something about it. Quad9 is a non-profit project that provides basic security protection even to people with lower security awareness.

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The Cybersecurity 202: This new Android app aims to tackle cyber insecurity in the developing world

A new free Android app is seeking to dramatically improve security for smartphone users in the developing world — and make the world’s cybersecurity ecosystem safer in the process.

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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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