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Social engineering is an attack against people to gain access to their information or to their systems. Which type of social engineering would BEST fit an example of an attacker who attacks a local server to redirect queries from the real site to a fake site run by the attacker?
Whaling
Phishing
Pharming
Spear fishing
The correct answer is Pharming. Pharming attacks compromise at the DNS server level, re-directing you to a hacker's site when you type in a company's Web address. Whaling attacks senior executives of a company through email. Phishing has realistic looking emails which are fake posing as the real company to steal information. Spear fishing targets specific groups of computer users.
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