It is a great week for browser security in general terms, because following news of Opera yesterday baking in VPN support, Russian web company Yandex has declared that its browser takes built in anti-DNS-spoofing technology.

Either way, you are headed to said malware-rich imitation sites rather than the actual things.

Solving the problem

The Yandex browser safeguards against this instead of using an unknown DNS resolver, when you type in an URL, one of 80 protected DNS servers spread across the world which are possessed by the Russian firm worked out it’s.

So potentially poisoned one and users are ensured to use a verified DNS resolver rather than a haphazard, and the DNSCrypt protocol also encrypts communication between server and the browser, safeguarding against interception that was potential.

Yandex is of course an offering that is vague, but this still represents an intriguing development in the browser world, and perhaps we’ll see this kind of protection before too long in other important browsers.

In other recent browser Opera, in addition to security news incorporating its own VPN service that is free and unlimited, a few weeks back Microsoft also boasted about the tight security of Edge, and its strategies to give users a high level of control over Adobe Flash