[share_ebook] Inside the Spam Cartel: Trade Secrets from the Dark Side

Learn How Spammers Stay One Step Ahead of the Law

A Methodical and Technically Explicit Exposé That Travels Beyond Configuring Filters and Cleaning Mailboxes

A "Must Read" for Security Professionals, Law Enforcement, Hackers, and Programmers

"You may not know me, but it's likely you have received at least one of the 10 to 20 million spam e-mails I send each week. This is my story, my chance to tell the world how and why I became one of the world's most prolific spammers. I'll take you inside the Spam Cartel, showing real examples and techniques used to send spam, including how e-mail addresses are obtained, spam filters are evaded, and money is made. I want you to understand how a spammer works and why I choose to work in one of the most hated industries in the world. "---Spammer X

?          Understand SPAM as an Industry See why SPAM has become a preferred means of mass market advertising for many companies.

?        Learn How Spammers "Own" Proxy Servers and SMTP Relays Scan networks to identify security flaws for exploitation.

?          Bait the Hook with Phishing and Scam SPAM See how promises of a Nigerian treasury surplus or an uncollected lottery winning attract the unsuspecting.

?          Discover the Top Spoofed Spam Domains You may be surprised to know that the most commonly abused domains include Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ameritech locations.

?          Employ SPAM Forensics Track a spammer's activities and build a fingerprint from the spam they send and the techniques they use.

?          Learn the Rules of the CAN-SPAM Act Find the teeth in the law to help protect both corporate and national security interests.

?          Create Messages that Get Read Only the best spammers have mastered the art of making the reader want to buy an otherwise useless product.

?          Learn how VoIP Spam May Be the Next Big Thing VoIP creates an IP address for your phone number, meaning most of the spammer's e-mail techniques can be readily ported.

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The complete code listings from the book

These downloadable e-booklets:

WarDriving: Learning to WarDrive

Hacking the Code: Managing Sessions

Cyber Adversary Characterization: Introduction to Auditing the Hacker Mind

Wireless Hacking: Building Outdoor Enclosures and Antenna Masts 

About the Author
Jeffrey Posluns, CISM, CISA, ISSAP, ISSMP, CISSP, SSCP, has over a decade of experience specializing in the management of technology companies, with technical expertise in the analysis of hacker tools and techniques, intrusion detection, forensics, and incident response. Having founded, co-founded, and invested in several e-commerce and security initiatives, he has served in the capacity of president, CTO, and CIO. Jeffrey speaks at seminars and conferences worldwide for corporate, law enforcement, financial, and legal audiences, where his sessions are most often described as educational and thought provoking. As one of the industry's leading security professionals, he is a dynamic, highly sought business and technology speaker, an author of multiple books and white papers, and a recognized expert in identifying trends, solving business problems, and resolving security issues for many of the nation's leading companies.

He has authored, edited, and contributed to a number of books from Syngress Publishing including Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection (ISBN: 1-931836-74-4), the SSCP Certification Study Guide & DVD Training System (ISBN: 1-931836-80-9), and Hack Proofing Your Wireless Networks (ISBN: 1-928994-59-8), as well as having written and contributed to other technological books, white papers, financial and security-related software and toolkits. Jeffrey is also a trainer for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) curriculum.

Stu Sjouwerman is the President of Sunbelt Software and the publisher of W2Knews, the world's first and largest e-newsletter specifically focused on NT/W2K system managers. W2Knews has 300,000 weekly readers who have the job of keeping  NT/W2K up and running in a production environments. Sunbelt has made it into the INC. 500 Magazine list of fastest-growing, privately-held companies. By 2003, Sunbelt had total revenues of $30M and Stu had co-authored three books on Windows system administration, including the bestselling Windows NT Power Toolkit. Sunbelt's most popular product is iHateSpam, which is the best selling anti-spam solution for Microsoft Exchange sites with 5,000 installations, and 250,000 end users using iHateSpam on their personal computers. Stu lives in Bellair, FL.