[77950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Old McDonald Had a Pharm?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Tue Feb 15 13:41:13 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:36:30 -0500
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
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There have been a couple recent articles about a phenomenon allegedly known
as "pharming", which people are supposedly worried about. This includes some
combination of DNS cache poisoning and/or worm-powered URL rewriting.
This may also be a form of "fear-driven marketing" by companies inventing
solutions to "fix" the problem which may not exist. (Mac Anti-virus
software, anyone? ;)
Is anyone aware of actual "pharming" in the wild? Please reply off-list and
I will summarize answers to the list.
Thanks,
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Daniel Golding
Network and Telecommunications Strategies
Burton Group
