Archives: 2008 February

Internet privacy is the ability to control what information you reveal about yourself over the Internet and who can access this personal information.  The subset of Internet privacy is called computer privacy, which narrows down the field of privacy to something you can control.  Experts in the Internet privacy field agree that there is no […]

Pharming is when a hacker attacks your computer and tries to redirect a website’s traffic to another fake website. This can be done by either changing the hosts file on the target’s computer or by exploiting vulnerability in DNS server software. DNS servers are computers responsible for resolving Internet names into their real […]