How to stop these 8 cyber-attacks that target the Internet’s weakest link Domain Name Systems (DNS) are the traffic cops of the Internet – translating the easy-to-remember web addresses that people type into their browsers to the machine-friendly public IP addresses that modern networks mark locations on the Internet. But the exorbitant amount of traffic they direct also makes them one of the Internet’s weakest links, with open connections to arbitrary servers that can be easily exploited by hackers. Attacks that cause failures in DNS can be crippling to an organization – leaving a