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What is pharming?
Posted by sgpaulson on Thursday, July 5, 2007
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From Wikipedia:
Pharming is the exploitation of a vulnerability in the DNS server software that allows a hacker to acquire the Domain Name for a site, and to redirect traffic to that web site to another web site. (full pharming definition)

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