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29-10-2008, 11:28 door Anoniem

What is Pharming?Pharming (pronounced “farming”) is another form of online fraud, very similar to its cousin phishing. Pharmers rely upon the same bogus Web sites and theft of confidential information to perpetrate online scams, but are more difficult to detect in many ways because they are not reliant upon the victim accepting a “bait” message. Instead of relying completely on users clicking on an enticing link in fake email messages, pharming instead re-directs victims to the bogus Web site even if they type the right Web address of their bank or other online service into their Web browser. Pharmers re-direct their victims using one of several ploys. The first method – the one that earned pharming its name – is actually an old attack called DNS cache poisoning. DNS cache poisoning is an attack on the Internet naming system that allows users to enter in meaningful names for Web sites (www.mybank.com) rather than a difficult to remember series of numbers (192.168.1.1). The naming system ...

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