The Threats of Pharming Unveiled in Mirapoint's Analyst Corner.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- The Radicati Group Examines the Threats of Pharming pharming (fär`mĭng), the use of genetically altered livestock, such as cows, goats, pigs, and chickens, to produce medically useful products. in the Analyst Corner April Edition Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, will feature a Messaging Technology Report from The Radicati Group, Inc. that examines the emerging threat of pharming in this month's Analyst Corner. "A close cousin of 'phishing,' pharming seeks to obtain personal information through domain spoofing The unauthorized use of a third-party domain name in an e-mail message in order to pretend to be someone else. See e-mail spoofing. ," said Sara Radicati, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of The Radicati Group. "Rather than sending a deceptive de·cep·tive adj. Deceptive or tending to deceive. de·cep  tive·ness n. email to lure victims to spoofed Websites, pharming involves manipulating a DNS server A dedicated server or a service within a server that provides DNS name resolution in an IP network. It turns names for Web sites and network resources into numeric IP addresses. DNS servers are used in large companies, in all ISPs and within the DNS system in the Internet, a vital service so that legitimate Website requests are redirected to spoofed sites." This report defines pharming in detail while highlighting methods that can be used to educate businesses and users on the measures they can take to protect themselves. For example, businesses with a Web presence would be wise to add certificates to their site, which will help distinguish the legitimate versions of such sites from fraudulent imposters. End users should also be aware of the potential threat posed by pharming, and when possible, look for banks that offer multi-factor authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. for transactions. Mirapoint's Analyst Corner provides in-depth information on news and trends in the messaging market. The Analyst Corner serves as a resource for those interested in articles, reports and commentaries related to email messaging and messaging security from leading industry analysts. The Analyst Corner is updated on a monthly basis and features content from various messaging experts. Access to the Analyst Corner is free. Information on signing up to access the Analyst Corner can be found at www.mirapoint.com/analyst. About Mirapoint Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com. |
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