Black Hat

Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age

By: John Biggs

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Paperback | 1 June 2004

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General Internet use is all the experienced required. This is a fun, gossipy read about Black Hats - aka hackers.

This is not an alarmist book. It will take a balanced look at the hacking cases that made the news in the past few years and the people behind them as well as the legislation currently in process regarding hacking, reverse-engineering, cracking, and spam. This is not the Anarchist Cookbook of the tech world-it doesn't tell how to hack, it just relates the stories of those who have.

This book has will attract an educated, technology-savvy audience, someone who doesn't want to slog through a thousand dry pages on computer security but would enjoy a wide survey of the modern threats we all face in the techno jungle.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories True Stories True Crime Computing & I.T.Computer Networking & Communications Network Security Computer Security Computer Fraud & Hacking Data Encryption Computer Programming & Software Development Software Engineering

About the Author	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Black Hats: Things That Go Ping in the Night	p. 1
Y.O.U Mayhave Alredy II: Spam	p. 5
The Problem	p. 7
The Cost of Free Marketing	p. 11
From Them to You	p. 13
The Solution	p. 18
A Dissection	p. 21
The Future of Spam	p. 26
Deep Cover: Spyware	p. 31
Benign Spyware	p. 32
Malignant Spyware	p. 33
Know Your Enemy	p. 35
Underhanded Ads	p. 38
Spyware vs. Antispyware	p. 41
Sneaky Tricks	p. 43
Lessons Learned	p. 46
Shockwave: Worms and Viruses	p. 49
Infection	p. 51
Dissection	p. 55
The Menagerie	p. 58
The Great Worm	p. 59
A Worm Named After a Stripper	p. 61
The Worm Heard Round the World	p. 62
Immune Deficiency	p. 67
On the Front Lines	p. 69
Dear Friend: Scams	p. 71
Save My Life	p. 72
Nigeria Fights Back	p. 76
Dehydrated Water	p. 78
Gone Phishing	p. 80
Sold, to the Gentleman in the Trench Coat	p. 84
Pump and Dump	p. 87
The Law	p. 90
Upload or Perish: Pirates	p. 93
Dinosaurs	p. 94
The Tale of the Tape II	p. 96
DVD Jon	p. 101
Code = FreeSpeech?	p. 103
Napster Is Dead, Long Live Napster	p. 108
Hundreds of Strangers, Working in Concert	p. 109
The Cost	p. 112
Break in: Hacking	p. 115
Modern Hackers	p. 116
Purple Haze, Blue Boxes	p. 116
Lord Digital	p. 118
Busting Punks for Fun and Profit	p. 122
Script Kiddies Attack	p. 125
The Pro Circuit	p. 129
Hired Guns	p. 131
Don't Get Burned: White Hats	p. 133
The Three Rules of Safe Surfing	p. 134
Trust No One	p. 135
Encrypt Everything	p. 135
Look for the Open-Source Label	p. 136
Last Words on Safety	p. 137
End Users: Don't Click There!	p. 137
Administrators: Stewards of the Realm	p. 139
Lawmakers: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way	p. 140
Things Are Going to Be OK	p. 141
Glossary	p. 143
Selected Reading	p. 147
Hacking	p. 147
Open Source	p. 147
System Administration	p. 148
Index	p. 149
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