Diana Andrews is in charge of keeping e-mail safe for the 400 employees of a mail order company. To increase employee awareness of security threats, Diana sends out a weekly e-zine with helpful updates.
-Diana also explains that in the criminal act of ____, hackers hijack a domain name service (DNS) server to automatically redirect users from legitimate Web sites to spoofed Web sites in the effort to steal personal information.
A) phishing
B) pharming
C) spamming
D) spying

Question

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Pharming is the criminal act where hackers hijack a DNS server to redirect users from legitimate websites to spoofed ones to steal personal information.

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