Phishing and Counter-Measures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft (2006, Hardcover)

Key Details
Language:	English
Publisher:	Wiley-Interscience
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	0471782459
ISBN-13:	9780471782452

Additional Details
Editor:	Steven Myers, Markus Jakobsson

Size
Length:	700 pages
Thickness:	1.5 in
Weight:	41 oz

Publisher's Note
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. The authors subsequently deliberate on what action the government can take to respond to this situation and compare adequate versus inadequate countermeasures.

Mostly American researchers introduce the practice of retrieving confidential or sensitive credentials about legitimate computer users by mimicking electronic communications from a trustworthy or public organization, and measures that can be taken to avoid and prevent it. They speak mainly to computer scientists, engineers in wireless communication, banking specialists, policy makers, and graduate or undergraduate students in those fields. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)