DNS and DNS Security — Roadmap Step & Resources
How DNS works and the ways it's abused: spoofing, tunneling and cache poisoning
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker
Before this step
Study resources
- What is DNS? (Article) — Cloudflare's canonical, plain-English explanation of how DNS resolution works.
- DNS Attacks Explained (Video) — Covers DNS spoofing, cache poisoning and other common DNS-based attacks.
- DNS Explained in 100 Seconds (Video) — Fireship's punchy, well-loved explainer on how DNS resolves domain names (confirmed, previously used in other files this session).
Part of
- Networking for Security — section
- Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker roadmap — the full learning path