Local Cache

The act of altering or falsifying DNS information at a source location (i. e. , HOSTS file, caching DNS server, or authoritative DNS server) in order to route or misdirect legitimate traffic.
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The act of altering or falsifying DNS information using a rogue DNS server to send false DNS replies in order to route or misdirect legitimate traffic.
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Pronounced cash, a special highspeed storage mechanism. It can be either a reserved section of main memory or an independent highspeed storage device. Two types of caching are commonly used in personal computers: memory caching and disk caching. A memory cache, sometimes called a cache store or RAM cache, is a portion of memory made of highspeed static RAM (SRAM) instead of the slower and cheaper dynamic RAM (DRAM) used for main memory. Memory caching is effective because most programs access the same data or instructions over and over. Disk caching works under the same principle as memory caching, but instead of using highspeed SRAM, a disk cache uses conventional main memory. When data is found in the cache, it is called a cache hit, and the effectiveness of a cache is judged by its hit rate.
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An attack where an attacker inserts bogus information into the ARP cache (the local memory store of discovered IP to MAC relationships).
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A subprotocol of the TCP/IP protocol suite that operates at the Data Link layer (layer 2). ARP is used to discover the MAC address of a system by polling using its IP address. The Internet protocol used to dynamically map Internet addresses to physical (hardware) addresses on the local area network. Limited to networks that support hardware broadcast.
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