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Fortinet prevents pharming.


Fortinet say its FortiGateT systems, which are security appliances that provide integrated security applications, help defeat the growing threat of a new form of malicious electronic crime--Pharming. Fortinet is complementing its integrated security applications with a new educational paper that offers enterprises, service providers and individual users a five-step method for identifying the difficult-to-detect phenomenon (detailed below).

Pharming pharming (fär`mĭng), the use of genetically altered livestock, such as cows, goats, pigs, and chickens, to produce medically useful products.  is a highly sophisticated extension of the online confidence scam 'Phishing' and is best confined through a blended network security response' that eliminates threats including DNS poisoning See DNS cache poisoning and DNS hijacking. , Trojan horse See Trojan.

Trojan Horse

hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]

See : Deceit



(application, security) Trojan horse
 programs and key-logging spyware. Unlike Phishing, Pharming attacks hide silently in a network-connected computer and harvests personal financial details of the users regular Web surfing Refers to jumping from page to page on the Web. Just as in "TV channel surfing," where one clicks the remote to go from channel to channel, the hyperlink on Web pages makes it easy to jump from one page to another.  activities. Users requesting a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding.

A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being
 Website are unknowingly sent to a fake Website that mirrors a legitimate site. Once the pharming scheme is planted, malicious activitiy can be launched against a wide number of sites that the user may visit on a regular basis totally unknown to that user.

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Publication:Software World
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Date:Jul 1, 2005
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