A must read for programmers and administrators responsible for system security, this collection of 10 tips from Phishing Exposed, by Lance James, will teach you how to prepare for and defend against phishers and spammers. You'll learn tricks of the trade that phishers and spammers use and how to fight back.
To begin, you'll discover how the email delivery process works, including how phishers and spammers take advantage of weaknesses in SMTP design to manipulate and forge email headers and settings. You'll also explore how phishers and spammers use open relays and proxy servers to cover their tracks, and tools and techniques they use to harvest email addresses, bypass spam filters and send bulk mail to your users.
Phishing exposed -- 10 tips in 10 minutes
Home: Introduction
Tip 1: Phishing and email basics
Tip 2: Phishing and the mail delivery process
Tip 3: Anonymous email and phishing
Tip 4: Forging headers and phishing
Tip 5: Open relays, proxy servers and phishing
Tip 6: Proxy chaining, onion routing, mixnets and phishing
Tip 7: Harvesting email addresses and phishing
Tip 8: Phishers, hackers and insiders
Tip 9: Sending spam and phishing
Tip 10: Fighting phishing with spam filters
This chapter excerpt from Phishing Exposed, Lance James, is printed with permission from Syngress Publishing, Copyright 2005. Click here for the chapter download.
