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Phishing and Countermeasures (eBook, PDF)

Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft

Redaktion: Jakobsson, Markus; Myers, Steven

Beschreibung

Phishing and Counter-Measures discusses how and why phishing is a threat, and presents effective countermeasures. Showing you how phishing attacks have been mounting over the years, how to detect and prevent current as well as future attacks, this text focuses on corporations who supply the resources used by attackers. The authors subsequently deliberate on what action the government can take to respond to this situation and compare adequate versus inadequate countermeasures.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 44.4MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

MARKUS JAKOBSSON, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Informatics at Indiana University, where he is also Associate Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Dr. Jakobsson is the former editor of RSA CryptoBytes. He is a noted authority on the subject of phishing and is regularly invited to speak on the topic at conferences and workshops. STEVEN MYERS, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics at Indiana University and a member of the University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Dr. Myers worked on secure email anti-phishing technology at Echoworx Corporation, and has written several papers on cryptography, distributed systems, and probabilistic combinatorics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470086094
• Artikelnr.: 37290515

Rezensionen

"...I highly recommend this as a must-read book in the collection of phishing literature." ( Computing Reviews.com , September 13, 2007)
"...may be used as a textbook or a comprehensive reference for individuals involved with Internet security..." ( CHOICE , July 2007)