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Furthermore, the technique is also not really a danger to corporate users, because any
competent information technology (IT) staff will change default passwords on wireless routers as
a matter of course. In addition, corporations can simply redirect outgoing DNS queries to their
internal DNS servers, which will defeat this attack. It is also important to note that the research-
ers’ work is not completely original; for example, the idea of using JavaScript to break into routers
probably came from a July 2006 speech at the Black Hat convention by security expert Jeremiah
Grossman. us, there is nothing truly novel about this attack type.
Mitigation
Preventing pharming attacks is difficult due to their complexity. Mitigation