| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1: Parasite; Chapter 2: Bulletproof; Chapter 3: The Pharma Wars; Chapter 4: Meet the Buyers; Chapter 5: Russian Roulette; Chapter 6: Partner(ka)s in (Dis)Organized Crime; Chapter 7: Meet the Spammers; Chapter 8: Old Friends, Bitter Enemies; Chapter 9: Meeting in Moscow; Chapter 10: The Antis; Chapter 11: Takedown; Chapter 12: Endgame; Epilogue: A Spam-Free World: How You Can Protect Yourself from Cybercrime; Acknowledgments; Sources; About the Author; Back Flap; Back Cover |
| Summary |
There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data, and Endanger Your Life. In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies-and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks-he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers ev |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 3, 2014) |
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Computer crimes -- United States
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Internet fraud -- United States
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Spam (Electronic mail)
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Phishing.
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Organized crime -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
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Computer crimes
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Internet fraud
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Organized crime
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Phishing
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Spam (Electronic mail)
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781402295638 |
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1402295634 |
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9781402295621 |
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1402295626 |
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