post #1 of 1 Thread Starter  Users are getting infected with
ransomware thanks to criminals managing to hack the DNS records
of Go Daddy hosted websites.  That's not welcome news for the
world's largest domain name registrar, especially so soon after
the recent denial of service attack.   In a nutshell, DNS
provides a system where computers on a network (the internet)
can be referenced by a user-friendly name. These names are known
as hostnames, and DNS translates them into what is known as an
IP address.  A key feature of DNS is that changes can be made
and applied very rapidly, allowing resources to be moved between
machines/networks/locations without affecting end users. The
hostnames remain constant, and DNS handles any changes in the IP
address as the resources move.