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Definition of pharming in English: pharmingnoun ˈfɑːmɪŋˈfɑrmɪŋ mass noun1The process of genetically modifying plants and animals so that they produce substances which may be used as pharmaceuticals. Example sentencesExamples - Rissler and Ellstrand argue that pharming should be strictly limited to nonfood crops - to, say, tobacco or castor beans.
- Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its guidelines for industrial pharming, but many scientists believe these are grossly inadequate.
- Instead of using expensive pharmaceutical factories, advocates envisage fields of GM crops being harvested to reap new medicines cheaply, a process known as " pharming ".
- Jeremy Rifkin is a modern-day Bellerophon, fighting to stop pharming - and any other research involving chimeras, for that matter.
- Recent mergers, as well as research into "bio - pharming," have erased many boundaries between the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
- An outgrowth of genetic engineering, the technique has been branded "pharming."
- Then there's what's known as pharming - the relatively new practice of using genetically altered livestock to produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.
- Dubbed "pharming" by its opponents, this is the latest step in technology which allows medicines to be grown in plants.
- This is vital to prevent New Zealand being exploited as a 'wild west' playground for inappropriate and unethical developments like 'pharming'.
- The genetic engineering of livestock for human medical applications is known as pharming.
- For example, there has been talk about southern agriculture specializing in growing GM plants that are used by the pharmaceutical industry (so-called pharming).
- "Pharming" is a new field of research involving herds and flocks of animals that are transformed into chemical factories to produce pharmaceutical products.
- Recent mergers, as well as research into ‘bio - pharming,’ have erased many boundaries between the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
- The book will be useful for molecular biologists and protein biochemists in academia and industry with an interest in molecular pharming.
2The fraudulent practice of directing Internet users to a bogus website that mimics the appearance of a legitimate one, in order to obtain personal information such as passwords, account numbers, etc. Example sentencesExamples - The next wave of Internet-related scams, however, may move from phishing to pharming.
- So when I see the numbers of victims of online phishing, pharming, and 419 scams, I'm not surprised.
- While phishing is one of the more recognisable online threats, perhaps a more serious risk is pharming, according to Henry.
- Now the latest cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to reel in entire schools of victims.
- As users become harder to dupe with phishing schemes, we may see a shift from phishing to pharming.
- More fundamentally, the nascent threat of pharming re-emphasises the need to revamp DNS systems and domain registration that critics argue is long overdue.
- Another theoretical variation on pharming is based on Domain Name System poisoning.
- Pharming attacks use DNS poisoning or domain hijacks to redirect users to dodgy urls.
- A DNS cache poisoning attack over the weekend also highlights the potential use of DNS tricks in ' pharming ' (phishing using redirection rather than bait emails).
- Both experts agree that pharming is simply a new application of well-known security weaknesses.
- The latest type of attack, sometimes referred to as pharming, redirects a victim trying to go to popular legitimate sites instead to a malicious website or a pay-per-click website.
- "Pharming is a next-generation phishing attack," Scott Chasin, CTO of MX Logic, told Government Computer News.
- Pharming is another online scam, in which hackers download 'crimeware' to the users' computer.
- To understand pharming, you need a little background on DNS.
- It offers complete protection against phishing, pharming, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, viruses and spam.
- Thieves use dumpster digging, phishing, and pharming to obtain your information.
- The trick - dubbed pharming - is potentially more sinister than phishing because it avoids the need to coax users into responding to junk email alerts.
- It also has to take account of social engineering such as phishing and pharming.
- Dubbed "pharming" by MX Logic, the new attacks use malware or DNS cache poisoning to redirect users to fake sites in an attempt to steal personal data.
- Phishing and pharming (I hate cute names for criminality) are adding to the concern.
Origin 1990s: sense 1 punningly after farming; sense 2 patterned on phishing. Definition of pharming in US English: pharmingnounˈfärmiNGˈfɑrmɪŋ 1The process of genetically modifying plants and animals so that they produce substances which may be used as pharmaceuticals. Example sentencesExamples - The book will be useful for molecular biologists and protein biochemists in academia and industry with an interest in molecular pharming.
- "Pharming" is a new field of research involving herds and flocks of animals that are transformed into chemical factories to produce pharmaceutical products.
- An outgrowth of genetic engineering, the technique has been branded "pharming."
- Dubbed "pharming" by its opponents, this is the latest step in technology which allows medicines to be grown in plants.
- The genetic engineering of livestock for human medical applications is known as pharming.
- Then there's what's known as pharming - the relatively new practice of using genetically altered livestock to produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.
- This is vital to prevent New Zealand being exploited as a 'wild west' playground for inappropriate and unethical developments like 'pharming'.
- For example, there has been talk about southern agriculture specializing in growing GM plants that are used by the pharmaceutical industry (so-called pharming).
- Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its guidelines for industrial pharming, but many scientists believe these are grossly inadequate.
- Rissler and Ellstrand argue that pharming should be strictly limited to nonfood crops - to, say, tobacco or castor beans.
- Recent mergers, as well as research into "bio - pharming," have erased many boundaries between the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
- Jeremy Rifkin is a modern-day Bellerophon, fighting to stop pharming - and any other research involving chimeras, for that matter.
- Recent mergers, as well as research into ‘bio - pharming,’ have erased many boundaries between the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.
- Instead of using expensive pharmaceutical factories, advocates envisage fields of GM crops being harvested to reap new medicines cheaply, a process known as " pharming ".
2The fraudulent practice of directing Internet users to a bogus website that mimics the appearance of a legitimate one, in order to obtain personal information such as passwords, account numbers, etc. Example sentencesExamples - It also has to take account of social engineering such as phishing and pharming.
- Phishing and pharming (I hate cute names for criminality) are adding to the concern.
- Pharming attacks use DNS poisoning or domain hijacks to redirect users to dodgy urls.
- Thieves use dumpster digging, phishing, and pharming to obtain your information.
- Dubbed "pharming" by MX Logic, the new attacks use malware or DNS cache poisoning to redirect users to fake sites in an attempt to steal personal data.
- While phishing is one of the more recognisable online threats, perhaps a more serious risk is pharming, according to Henry.
- Another theoretical variation on pharming is based on Domain Name System poisoning.
- Both experts agree that pharming is simply a new application of well-known security weaknesses.
- To understand pharming, you need a little background on DNS.
- The next wave of Internet-related scams, however, may move from phishing to pharming.
- As users become harder to dupe with phishing schemes, we may see a shift from phishing to pharming.
- A DNS cache poisoning attack over the weekend also highlights the potential use of DNS tricks in ' pharming ' (phishing using redirection rather than bait emails).
- "Pharming is a next-generation phishing attack," Scott Chasin, CTO of MX Logic, told Government Computer News.
- Pharming is another online scam, in which hackers download 'crimeware' to the users' computer.
- The latest type of attack, sometimes referred to as pharming, redirects a victim trying to go to popular legitimate sites instead to a malicious website or a pay-per-click website.
- It offers complete protection against phishing, pharming, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, viruses and spam.
- The trick - dubbed pharming - is potentially more sinister than phishing because it avoids the need to coax users into responding to junk email alerts.
- So when I see the numbers of victims of online phishing, pharming, and 419 scams, I'm not surprised.
- More fundamentally, the nascent threat of pharming re-emphasises the need to revamp DNS systems and domain registration that critics argue is long overdue.
- Now the latest cyberswindle, pharming, threatens to reel in entire schools of victims.
Origin 1990s: pharming (sense 1) punningly after farming; pharming (sense 2) patterned on phishing. |