DomainTools reported that someone found a way to embed malware in Domain Name System (DNS) records, which means we have something new to blame on the system responsible for pretty much every networking problem most people may have.
For anyone fortunate enough not to know already, DNS is the system that enables you to enter something like "tomshardware.com" in your browser's address bar and, ideally, be taken to the IP address associated with our site. Without it we'd have to enter those IP addresses manually—with no guarantee that an IP address that worked yesterday will continue to work today. Why? Because the most common Internet Protocol, IPv4, didn't account for the sheer number of devices we'd all want to put online, and its successor, IPv6, still isn't supported as well as it should be.
