[176210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Brian Krebs' new book is out.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Nov 19 19:29:22 2014
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:29:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- 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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