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Re: Brian Krebs' new book is out.


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:29:09 -0500 (EST)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net>

This is an important book - well worth your time, and, more
importantly, accessible to non-specialists (such as BDMs):

<http://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime--Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00L5QGBL0/>
<http://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime--Epidemic/dp/1402295618/>

It's not about spam, per se. It's about the global underground economy,
and includes a lot of insight into internecine warfare amongst online
criminals, including DDoS attacks with huge collateral damage
footprints; and also talks about the origins of the Blue Security fiasco
and subsequent DDoS, DDoS attacks against Spamhaus, etc.

Krebs is pressing the book, of course; here's a link to Terry Gross' Fresh Air
interview with him from earlier this week.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/18/364730954/how-a-feud-between-two-russian-companies-fueled-a-spam-nation

Cheers,
-- jra
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