Seven Deadliest Social Network Attacks

Index

Page numbers followed by f indicates a figure and t indicates a table.

A

Adware, 25t

Agobot, 10

AJAX. See Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Application programming interfaces (APIs), 31

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), 31, 32

B

Backdoors software, 26

Background checks, 123–125

Blogs, 107

Botnets, 7, 11f, 19–20

exploring, 9–13

operation of, 10–13

and puppetnet, 14–15

C

Cellular picture phone messaging, 107

Concealment malware, 25

Credit report

fraud alerts with, 94

monitoring, 95–96

Crimeware, 25t

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks, 35–36

mitigating, 39–40

overview of, 34–35

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, 27, 28, 28f

mitigating, 38–39

non-persistent, 29–32

persistent, 30–32

CSRF attacks. See Cross-site request forgery attacks ...