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Perpetrators who ‘pharm’ for information do so by hacking into DNS server software. (DNS servers are the giant computers that ‘run’ the Internet). These computer hackers look for any vulnerability in the DNS software through which they can acquire the domain name of a website and re-direct traffic from that website to another fraudulent website.
