Pharming
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pharming-169-12346081
title:
Pharming
text:
Pharming is a cyberattack intended to redirect a website's traffic to another, fake site by installing a malicious program on the victim's computer in order to gain access to it. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software. DNS servers are computers responsible for resolving Internet names into their real IP addresses. Compromised DNS servers are sometimes referred to as "poisoned". Pharming requi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming
date created:
2005-03-05T01:46:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T14:50:39Z
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