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By Robert Jones
First Edition
October 2005
Pages: 238
ISBN 10: 0-596-10006-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596100063
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
This practical guide to Internet fraud gives you the skills you need to fight back against the spammers, con artists, and identity thieves that plague the Internet. The book shows you how to nab the bad guys by extracting the information that lies hidden in every email message, web page, and web server on the Internet. Real-world examples illustrate all the major techniques discussed.
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This practical guide to defending against Internet fraud gives you the skills you need to uncover the origins of the spammers, con artists, and identity thieves that plague the Internet. Targeted primarily at the developer community, Internet Forensics shows you how to extract the information that lies hidden in every email message, web page, and web server on the Internet. It describes the lengths the bad guys will go to cover their tracks, and offers tricks that you can use to see through their disguises. You'll also gain an understanding for how the Internet functions, and how spammers use these protocols to their devious advantage.
The book is organized around the core technologies of the Internet-email, web sites, servers, and browsers. Chapters describe how these are used and abused and show you how information hidden in each of them can be revealed. Short examples illustrate all the major techniques that are discussed. The ethical and legal issues that arise in the uncovering of Internet abuse are also addressed.
Not surprisingly, the audience for Internet Forensics is boundless. For developers, it's a serious foray into the world of Internet security; for weekend surfers fed up with spam, it's an entertaining and fun guide that lets them play amateur detective from the safe confines of their home or office.
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Review of "Internet Forensics", March 20 2006
Over the past ten years, the Internet has become an increasingly vital part of our socio-economic ecosystem. As a result, it would not be conceivable to live without it anymore or to switch it off altogether. On the dark side, it is undeniable that the massive use of the Internet also brings its load of troubles that too often rotten the lives of many online users and businesses.
Committed to supporting the fight against the countless illnesses that plague the modern Internet, Robert Jones has contributed a great book called "Internet Forensics". As its title implies, this book delves into the most intimate details of the Internet and aims at raising the readers awareness regarding the many dangers of the Internet and to provide them with the necessary tools to prevent and fight against those dangers. Jones first introduces the design of DNS and IP addresses in order to explain how to dissect a spam network. He goes on analyzing the anatomy of emails and the SMTP protocol. He also describes the countless techniques used by spammers and phishers and how one can protect herself against them. The book also enumerates many techniques for analyzing web sites, web servers and log files and flushing out their malevolent authors. The book finishes by providing some patterns of activity and two real-world case studies that show in a very comprehensive way how to proceed for dismantling spam networks.
I would advise this book to any person who carries out activities on the Internet and for whom privacy and personal integrity is of paramount importance. Of course, the techniques explained in this book require the reader to show some interest in computer security and to have a working knowledge of UNIX or Linux and programming.
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"Concisely written, with the author getting straight to the point without the fluff of many other books, this is easily one of the best books on Internet Forensics available today. The author writes well and has a real knack for explaining things in a way everyone can understand. As a result it is easy to follow his thinking and logic at all times. Internet Forensics is highly recommended to anyone interested in this subject."
-- Harold McFarland, The Midwest Book Review: Harold's Bookshelf
"...a sensible, interesting book on amateur Internet forensics, the sort of thing you might do at home to track down people who are really annoying you...I recommend this book if you don’t know a lot about security and want to do something about nasty mail and Web pages."
-- Robert Jones, ;login:
"Unlike some of the internet security books I've read and reviewed, this one is actually understandable by those who aren't full-time network administration geeks...Important information, and extremely practical. I guarantee you'll walk away with a couple things immediately that you can use, and over the long haul the book will more than pay for itself."
-- Thomas Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings
"If you're 'mad as hell' at bogus email clogging your in box (and who isn't?), this is a good book to have to fight back at those who send it out."
--Todd Hawley, Amazon.com review, February 2006
"Ever wanted to track down a spammer or someone sending you annoying emails, but didn't quite know where to start? Start here... Unlike some of the internet security books I've read and reviewed, this one is actually understandable by those who aren't full-time network administration geeks. Jones examines the subject of tracking down computer crime (phishing, spam, etc.) by using forensic techniques to narrow down potential culprits…Important information, and extremely practical. I guarantee you'll walk away with a couple things immediately that you can use, and over the long haul the book will more than pay for itself."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings, November 2005
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"Concisely written, with the author getting straight to the point without the fluff of many other books, this is easily one of the best books on Internet Forensics available today. "
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