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Title Phishing and countermeasures : understanding the increasing problem of electronic identity theft / edited by Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers
Published Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, ©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 700 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Introduction to phishing -- 2. Phishing attacks : information flow and chokepoints -- 3. Spoofing and counter measures -- 4. Pharming and client side attacks -- 5. Status quo security tools -- 6. Adding context to phishing attacks : spear phishing -- 7. Human-centered design considerations -- 8. Passwords -- 9 . Mutual authentication and trusted pathways -- 10. Biometrics and authentication -- 11. Making takedown difficult -- 12. Protecting browser state -- 13. Browser toolbars -- 14. Social networks -- 15. Microsoft's anti-phishing technologies and tactics -- 16. Using S/MIME -- 17. Experimental evaluation of attacks and countermeasure s-- 18. Liability for phishing -- 19. The future
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Phishing.
Identity theft -- Prevention
Computer security
Computer Security
TRUE CRIME -- Hoaxes & Deceptions.
Computer security
Identity theft -- Prevention
Phishing
Computersicherheit
Gegenmaßnahme
Phishing
Gegenma€nahme.
Form Electronic book
Author Jakobsson, Markus.
Myers, Steven, 1975-
ISBN 9780470086094
0470086092
9780470086100
0470086106
1280821965
9781280821967