There's a new breed of online predators--serious criminals intent on stealing big bucks and top secret information--and their weapons of choice are a dangerous array of tools called "crimeware." With an ever-growing number of companies, organizations, and individuals turning to the Internet to get things done, there's an urgent need to understand and prevent these online security attacks.
Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses helps security professionals, technical managers, students, and researchers understand and prevent specific crimeware threats. This book guides you through the essential security principles, techniques, and countermeasures to keep you one step ahead of the criminals, regardless of evolving technology and tactics.
Security experts Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan share their extensive academic and in-the-trenches industry experience to help you understand how crimeware works, how to identify it, and how to prevent future attacks before your company's valuable information falls into the wrong hands. In self-contained chapters, Jakobsson and Ramzan provide thorough, easy-to-understand overviews before drilling down into advanced technical details.
This book will help you

• Understand current and emerging security threats including root kits, bot networks, spyware, adware, click fraud, and phishing
• Recognize the interaction between various crimeware threats
• Learn valuable countermeasures to stop crimeware in its tracks, now and in the future
• Gain insight into future security trends and threats, and create an effective defense plan