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Phishing means trying to gain someones personal or financial details through hacking.
Pharming means redirecting a websites traffic to another bogus website. (also hacking)
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 10y agoThe term phishing means sending illegal emails and trying to obtain usernames, passwords and credit details. It is a major online problem and most virus software has anti phishing built in.
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What can pharming do to your computer?
Please explain Pharming It's related to Phishing, but involves the actual redirection to bogus websites. The results to your computer may include compromised data (including passwords, credit card and bank details, etc) and even death of the computer through viral infection.
What are the difference between phishing and hacking?
Pharming is a Hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another, bogus website. 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 addresses - they are the "signposts" of the Internet. Compromised DNS servers are sometimes referred to as "poisoned". The term pharming is a word play on farming and phishing. The term phishing refers to social engineering attacks to obtain access credentials such as user names and passwords. In recent years both pharming and phishing have been used to steal identity information. Pharming has become of major concern to businesses hosting ecommerce and online banking websites. Sophisticated measures known as anti-pharming are required to protect against this serious threat. Antivirus software and spyware removal software cannot protect against pharming. Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay, PayPal and online banks are common targets. Phishing is typically carried out by email or instant messaging,[1] and often directs users to enter details at a website, although phone contact has also been used.[2] Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users.[3] Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical measures.
How can you prevent pharming?
you cant..
What is an example of pharming?
Improving livestock with transgenic research.
What is the difference between phishers and phishing?
phishing is the act of stealing accounts, and the phisher is the person that is phishing.
What tactic diverts traffic from one site to another?
Pharming
What is gene pharming?
You +1'd this publicly. Undo Gene Pharming is a technology that scientists use to alter an animal's own DNA, or to splice in new DNA, called a transgene, from another species.
Abuses of technology?
on the internet black/grey hat hackers using keyloggers,phishing websites,trojans,viruses,brute force attacks and other programs,pharming, changing websites ,ddos attacks people spamming and frauding other people reverse engineering,decompiling programs,changing codes, that are not supposed to be in the license agreement
What does Pharming involve?
pharming is were you mix chemicals with fresh produce to make something that it doesn't usually grow. In more definition it is were a plants genes are mixed with another plants genes to grow extream plants.
Password guessing tools are examples of what?
They are an example of pharming, or the act of generating codes to fit a situation. It is frequently illegal, as pharming is used to crack codes and therefore 'black hat' hacking, or hacking for malicious reasons.
What are consequences of phishing?
The risks of phishing include getting a virus on your computer or phone. You can also be fined very heavily if caught phishing.
How many pages does The Phishing Manual have?
The Phishing Manual has 320 pages.
