What are Active Cookies?
Active cookies, also known as soft tokens, might be able to help defend Internet users from pharming. Pharming is a more sophisticated form of phishing, an attack that tricks a user into thinking he or she is visiting a legitimate site of business and unwittingly giving over personal information to the thief. In a phishing attack, the thief designs a website that duplicates a known site of business. The thief then sends spam, encouraging people to visit the site to update information or take advantage of a promotion. When users click on the link within the email, they are taken to the fake site to divulge critical information. Hence, savvy users enter website addresses manually or use bookmarks. Those who do click on email links might spot the website address as being spelled incorrectly, saving themselves from a scam. However, none of these precautions will help spot a pharming scam. Pharming accomplishes the same thing as phishing, but with more stealth and without spam. In this case
