The AMD-iville Horror - Transcript

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Now this hour is Geek Speak what is Pharming okay so you know what password phishing is? We have talked about it on the show before we will get an E-mail from someone who looks very official usually it*s your bank or PayPal or eBay or AOL or something that looks very familiar to you and it*s very officials and there is something wrong that you have to take care of. You have either let your account go too long without changing your password or their password server has gone down or there has been something that*s happened with your account, someone has broken into your account and we need you to go and log in to get the details or to fix it or do whatever, just ignore those E-mails like the plague because all they are doing is phishing for your personal information because when you are going to log in, you will log in to a web page it looks very, very familiar and it looks very, very real but it*s not all they are doing is asking for the information so they can gather it and then put you off to the real site. Now Pharming is actually done in such a way that the site itself is acquired, the DNS is acquired for the site and you are actually going to the site but instead of the stuff that*s being shown as the site itself, a substitute is being shown so it*s not even a fake URL it*s the real thing. It*s the exploitation of the vulnerability in the domain name system that*s used to hookup the dotted quads of the world you know 1.9.43.216 with the actual domain names and to acquire for the hacker control of the site then they put up their site that looks very real, very similar. And you look at the URL that makes sense that*s the right one no, no. It*s getting to the point now where, I know that my bank sends me E-bills and sends E-mails saying here is the E-bill that we have just got for you, here is the account that we are about to pay, you know paying my bills online. And I never ever, I mean I am thinking to just turning off the E-mail notification because in a million years even if it looked absolutely real and I look to the source code and saw that it look absolutely real with Pharming being an issue. Why would I ever want to click on a link like that again, well until they come up with an exploit for it, which would pretty much decimate the system. If the URL begins with https and then goes on to be very real then that*s a good indication that it*s real but even then hackers can setup secure you know SSL-based websites it*s just insane anymore, it*s just insane. And this is in something that just happens every so often, eBay the German eBay website got hijacked in this way. A German teenager last year hijacked the entire German eBay website, how about Panix the ISP in New York just this past January was hijacked, to a site in Australia. So it*s not something that can*t happen, this is something that*s very real and very dangerous. Pharming that is this hour*s Geek Speak.

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