Email Forensics: Eliminating Spam, Scams and Phishing Contributor(s): Hatton, Les (Author) |
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ISBN: 1908422009 ISBN-13: 9781908422002 Publisher: Bluespear Publishing OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Security - Online Safety & Privacy |
Dewey: 005.8 |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.23 lbs) 350 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This is the first book of its kind to document the detailed application of forensic analysis techniques to the field of e-mail security. Both investigative and preventative techniques are described but the focus is on prevention. The world has been subjected to an increasing wave of spam and more recently, scamming and phishing attacks in the last twenty years. Such attacks now include industrial espionage and government-sponsored spying. The volume and sophistication of such attacks has rendered existing technologies only partially effective leaving the end-user vulnerable and the number of successful attacks is increasing. The seeds of this book were sown three years ago when the author, a Professor of Forensic Software Engineering, was trying to recover his 20 year-old e-mail address from the clutches of spammers who had rendered it almost unusable with more than 140,000 junk messages a day. It got to the point where he was invited by his ISP to either change it or take it elsewhere. Instead he decided to find out how to prevent the deluge, acquired his own servers and began researching. The book is a mixture of analysis, experiment and implementation in almost equal proportions with detailed description of the defence in depth necessary to turn the tidal wave of junk aside leaving only what the end user wants to see - no more and no less. It covers: -
The book contains many illustrations of attacks and is supported by numerous code examples in Perl and C. Perfection is impossible, but if you follow the advice in this book, you can build mail systems which provably make no more than 5 mistakes per million messages received, very close to the definitive manufacturing standard of six sigma. The threat from viruses effectively disappears and the e-mail user is secured from toxic content. |