The Jakobsson, Markus. text bibliography Electronic books. nju Hoboken John Wiley & Sons ©2012 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (387 pages) Fraud poses a significant threat to the Internet. 1.5% of all online advertisements attempt to spread malware. This lowers the willingness to view or handle advertisements, which will severely affect the structure of the web and its viability. It may also destabilize online commerce. In addition, the Internet is increasingly becoming a weapon for political targets by malicious organizations and governments. This book will examine these and related topics, such as smart phone based web security. This book describes the basic threats to the Internet (loss of trust, loss of advertising revenue, l. THE DEATH OF THE INTERNET; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Is the Title of this Book a Joke?; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Part I The Problem; 1 What Could Kill the Internet? And so What?; 2 It is About People; 2.1 Human and Social Issues; 2.1.1 Nigerian Scams; 2.1.2 Password Reuse; 2.1.3 Phishing; 2.2 Who are the Criminals?; 2.2.1 Who are they?; 2.2.2 Where are they?; 2.2.3 Deep-Dive: Taking a Look at Ex-Soviet Hackers; 2.2.4 Let's try to Find Parallels in the World we Live in; 2.2.5 Crime and Punishment?; 3 How Criminals Profit; 3.1 Online Advertising Fraud; 3.1.1 Advertising on the Internet. 3.1.1.1 Ad serving architecture3.1.1.2 Targeted advertising; 3.1.1.3 Revenue models; 3.1.2 Exploits of Online Advertising Systems; 3.1.2.1 Adversary; 3.1.2.2 Ad Fraud; 3.1.3 Click Fraud; 3.1.3.1 Case study: advertisers scammed by porn sites; 3.1.3.2 Countermeasures to fight click fraud; 3.1.4 Malvertising: Spreading Malware via Ads; 3.1.4.1 Countermeasures to fight malvertising; 3.1.5 Inflight Modification of Ad Traffic; 3.1.5.1 Countermeasures to fight inflight modification of ad traffic; 3.1.6 Adware: Unsolicited Software Ads; 3.1.6.1 Countermeasures to fight adware; 3.1.7 Conclusion. 3.2 Toeing the Line: Legal but Deceptive Service Offers3.2.1 How Does it Work?; 3.2.2 What do they Earn?; 3.3 Phishing and Some Related Attacks; 3.3.1 The Problem is the User; 3.3.2 Phishing; 3.3.3 Man-in-the-Middle; 3.3.4 Man-in-the-Browser; 3.3.5 New Attack: Man-in-the-Screen; 3.4 Malware: Current Outlook; 3.4.1 Malware Evolution; 3.4.1.1 Malware categories; 3.4.1.2 Malware example; 3.4.1.3 Polymorphic malware; 3.4.2 Malware Supply and Demand; 3.4.2.1 The malware industry; 3.4.2.2 Malware supply chain; 3.5 Monetization; 3.5.1 There is Money Everywhere; 4 How Things Work and Fail. 4.1 Online Advertising: With Secret Security4.1.1 What is a Click?; 4.1.2 How Secret Filters are Evaluated; 4.1.2.1 Third-party click scoring; 4.1.2.2 Ad network check: new filter, old clicks; 4.1.2.3 Ad network check: old filter, new clicks; 4.1.3 What do Fraudsters Know?; 4.2 Web Security Remediation Efforts; 4.2.1 Introduction; 4.2.2 The Multitude of Web Browser Security Mechanisms; 4.2.2.1 Web browser-based built-in security mechanisms; 4.2.2.2 Selectively invocable browser-based security mechanisms; 4.2.2.3 Advanced browser-based web security mechanisms; 4.2.3 Where do we go from Here? 4.3 Content-Sniffing XSS Attacks: XSS with Non-HTML Content4.3.1 Introduction; 4.3.2 Content-Sniffing XSS Attacks; 4.3.2.1 Content-sniffing; 4.3.2.2 A detailed view of content-sniffing XSS attacks; 4.3.2.3 Why do mismatches happen?; 4.3.2.4 Finding content-sniffing XSS attacks; 4.3.2.5 Example 1: Under the hood of the HotCRP attack; 4.3.2.6 Example 2: An attack on wikipedia; 4.3.3 Defenses; 4.3.3.1 Server-side defenses; 4.3.3.2 Secure content-sniffing; 4.3.3.3 Adoption; 4.3.4 Conclusion; 4.4 Our Internet Infrastructure at Risk; 4.4.1 Introduction; 4.4.2 The Political Structure. edited by Markus Jakobsson. 4.4.3 The Domain. Includes bibliographical references. Internet Security measures Electronic commerce Security measures Data protection Computer crimes Electrical engineering Engineering Computer science COMPUTERS Internet Security COMPUTERS Networking Security COMPUTERS Security General Computer crimes Data protection Electronic commerce Security measures Internet Security measures TK5105.875.I57 .J34 2012 005.8 COM053000 (DLC) 2011047198 9781118312551 1118312554 9781118312537 1118312538 377002 MIL 34298BC4-4E6D-4D1E-8B17-7DBF7E8D0BA7 OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118312551 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118312551 EBLCP 120716 20170612141629.0 ocn799768467 eng