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Anonymous Coward writes "The theory is now a reality. Symantec reportied Tuesday that drive-by pharming, in which a hacker changes the DNS settings on a customer's broadband router or wireless access point and directs the link to a fraudulent Web site, has been observed in the wild. The first drive-by pharming attack has been observed against a Mexican bank: "It's associated with an e-mail pretending to be from a legitimate Spanish-language e-greeting card company, Gusanito.com," says Symantec Security Response principal researcher Zulfikar Ramzan. Inside the e-mail is an HTML image tag but instead of displaying images, it sends a request to the home router to tamper with it. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/012208-drive-by-pharming.html"
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  • In the past too, a lot of hacks have been done by sending e-mails to people . But why does this happen again and again ? I mean, why does these kinda hacks mostly happen thru mails?? And that too repetitively ?? Thank god, it wasnt a browser that was the host..if it was..no marks for guessing which one has the highest probability of becoming a host....phew !!!!

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