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Which of the following is this an example of?

Users at a company report that a popular news website keeps taking them to a web page with derogatory
content.
Which of the following is this an example of?

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A.
Evil twin

B.
DNS poisoning

C.
Vishing

D.
Session hijacking

Explanation:
DNS spoofing (or DNS cache poisoning) is a computer hacking attack, whereby data is introduced into a
Domain Name System (DNS) resolver’s cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect IP address,
diverting traffic to the attacker’s computer (or any other computer).
A domain name system server translates a human-readable domain name (such as example.com) into a
numerical IP address that is used to route communications between nodes. Normally if the server doesn’t know
a requested translation it will ask another server, and the process continues recursively. To increase
performance, a server will typically remember (cache) these translations for a certain amount of time, so that, if
it receives another request for the same translation, it can reply without having to ask the other server again.
When a DNS server has received a false translation and caches it for performance optimization, it is
considered poisoned, and it supplies the false data to clients. If a DNS server is poisoned, it may return an
incorrect IP address, diverting traffic to another computer (in this case, the server hosting the web page with
derogatory content).


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