Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jakobsson, Markus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Data Encryption.

This book describes trends in email scams and offers tools and techniques to identify such trends. It also describes automated countermeasures based on an understanding of the type of persuasive methods used by scammers. It reviews both consumer-facing scams and enterprise scams, describing in-depth...