Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organised Cybercrime - from Global Experience to Your Front Door

Description

There's an online epidemic that costs governments billions and threatens the personal security of consumers everywhere - This is the first insider look at the global drug-spam problem - how it works, who buys, and who profits - through the story of the world's two largest pharmacy spam operations. Blending cutting-edge research and first-hand interviews, award-winning reporter and cybercrime expert Brian Krebs delivers a riveting account of this spam empire and proposes concrete solutions for stopping it before it's too late.

BRIAN KREBS is an award-winning journalist and founder of the highly acclaimed cybersecurity blog KrebsonSecurity.com. For 14 years, Krebs was a reporter for The Washington Post, where he authored the popular Security Fix blog. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and more and has been profiled by the New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.

"Krebs' guided tour of the cybercriminal underworld is a cautionary tale about menacing cultures of hackers, spammers and duplicitous digital network 'cybercrooks...' an eye-opening, immensely distressing expose on the current state of organized cyberspammers. " - Kirkus"