Pharming

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product uncountable
  2. 2
    The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive. uncountable

    "Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests."

Synonyms

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biofarmingbiofarmingbiopharming

Example

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"Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests."

Etymology

Etymology 1

from pharmaceutical + farming

Etymology 2

From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.

Related phrases

genetic engineering

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