pharming
The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product
Noun
- The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product
Origin
from pharmaceutical + farming
Synonyms
Noun computing, engineering
- The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.
- Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests. - 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:
Origin
From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.