Crimeware : Understanding New Attacks and Defenses /

Jakobsson, Markus

Crimeware : Understanding New Attacks and Defenses / Markus Jakobsson, Zulfikar Ramzan. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Addison-Wesley, c2008. - xxi, 582 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 525-556) and index.

Overview of crimeware -- A taxonomy of coding errors -- Crimeware and peer-to-peer networks -- Crimeware in small devices -- Crimeware in firmware -- Crimeware in the browser -- Bot networks -- Rootkits -- Virtual worlds and fraud -- Cybercrime and politics -- Online advertising fraud -- Crimeware business models -- The educational aspect of security -- Surreptitious code and the law -- Crimeware and trusted computing -- Technical defense techniques -- The future of crimeware.

9780321501950 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0321501950 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2007050736


Computer security.
Internet--Security measures.
Computer crimes

QA76.9.A25 / C75 2008

005.8 / JAK