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Question 23

An organisation's network users face the risk of a pharming cyber-attack.

Identify the description of pharming.

Intercepting data packets as they travel across a local area network.

Sending fraudulent emails that appear to be from a trusted company to trick users into revealing login details.

Redirecting a user from a genuine website to a fake website by altering DNS database records or host files.

Flooding a web server with useless traffic to crash the system and make it unavailable.

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