Phishing exposed -- 10 tips in 10 minutes

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.

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[IMAGE] Tip 1: Phishing and email basics
[IMAGE] Tip 2: Phishing and the mail delivery process
[IMAGE] Tip 3: Anonymous email and phishing
[IMAGE] Tip 4: Forging headers and phishing
[IMAGE] Tip 5: Open relays, proxy servers and phishing
[IMAGE] Tip 6: Proxy chaining, onion routing, mixnets and phishing
[IMAGE] Tip 7: Harvesting email addresses and phishing
[IMAGE] Tip 8: Phishers, hackers and insiders
[IMAGE] Tip 9: Sending spam and phishing
[IMAGE] Tip 10: Fighting phishing with spam filters