E-Mail Virus Protection Handbook (eBook)

Protect Your E-mail from Trojan Horses, Viruses, and Mobile Code Attacks

Syngress (Autor)

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2000 | 1. Auflage
476 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-047753-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The E-mail Virus Protection Handbook is organised around specific e-mail clients, server environments, and anti-virus software. The first eight chapters is useful to both users and network professionals, later chapters deal with topics relevant mostly to professionals with an emphasis on how to use e-mail filtering software to monitor all incoming documents for malicious behaviour. In addition, the handbook shows how to scan content and counter email address forgery attacks. A chapter on mobile code applications, which use Java applets and Active X controls to infect email and, ultimately, other applications and whole systems is presented.
The book covers spamming and spoofing: Spam is the practice of sending unsolicited email to users. One spam attack can bring down an entire enterprise email system by sending thousands of bogus messages or mailbombing, which can overload servers. Email spoofing means that users receive messages that appear to have originated from one user, but in actuality were sent from another user. Email spoofing can be used to trick users into sending sensitive information, such as passwords or account numbers, back to the spoofer.

* Highly topical! Recent events such as the LoveBug virus means the demand for security solutions has never been higher
* Focuses on specific safeguards and solutions that are readily available to users

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The E-mail Virus Protection Handbook is organised around specific e-mail clients, server environments, and anti-virus software. The first eight chapters are useful to both users and network professionals; later chapters deal with topics relevant mostly to professionals with an emphasis on how to use e-mail filtering software to monitor all incoming documents for malicious behaviour. In addition, the handbook shows how to scan content and counter email address forgery attacks. A chapter on mobile code applications, which use Java applets and Active X controls to infect email and, ultimately, other applications and whole systems is presented. The book covers spamming and spoofing: Spam is the practice of sending unsolicited email to users. One spam attack can bring down an entire enterprise email system by sending thousands of bogus messages or "e;mailbombing,"e; which can overload servers. Email spoofing means that users receive messages that appear to have originated from one user, but in actuality were sent from another user. Email spoofing can be used to trick users into sending sensitive information, such as passwords or account numbers, back to the spoofer. Highly topical! Recent events such as the LoveBug virus means the demand for security solutions has never been higher Focuses on specific safeguards and solutions that are readily available to users

Inhalt

Cover 1
Table of Contents 14
Introduction 24
Chapter 1: Understanding the Threats: E-mail Viruses, Trojans, Mail Bombers, Worms, and Illicit Servers 30
Chapter 2: Securing Outlook 2000 60
Chapter 3: Securing Outlook Express 5.0 and Eudora 4.3 104
Chapter 4: Web-based Mail Issues 148
Chapter 5: Client-Side Anti-Virus Applications 176
Chapter 6: Mobile Code Protection 224
Chapter 7: Personal Firewalls 256
Chapter 8: Securing Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Red Hat Linux 6 for E-mail Services 324
Chapter 9: Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 362
Chapter 10: Sendmail and IMAP Security 396
Chapter 11: Deploying Server-side E-mail Content Filters and Scanners 426
Appendix: Secrets 466
Index 476
Related Titles 511

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.11.2000
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Mail Server
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-08-047753-4 / 0080477534
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-047753-4 / 9780080477534