Internet: Phirst Phishing, Now Pharming

Enough has been written about phishing scams by now -- those fake emails that purport to be from banks or eBay, trying to trick you into submitting personal information. I get these every day, and never really worried about it because I'm not a moron. It's a minor annoyance to delete them, but you don't have to respond. But the latest threat, dubbed "pharming," can get you even if you're Howard Hughes careful. Pharmers actually manipulate the domain name system (DNS) that translates URLs into the IP addresses that computers understand, so these fraudsters can send you to a scam Web site even if you type in the correct URL. ...

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