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By
Ken Dunham, Ken Dunham has more than a decade of experience on the front lines of information security. As Director of Global Response for iSIGHT
Partners, he oversees all global cyber-threat response operations. He frequently briefs upper levels of federal and private-sector cyber
security authorities on emerging threats, and regularly interfaces with vulnerability and geopolitical experts to assemble comprehensive
malicious code intelligence and to inform the media of significant cyber threats. A major media company identified Mr. Dunham as the
top quoted global malicious code expert in 2006. Mr. Dunham regularly discovers new malicious code, has written anti-virus software for
Macintosh, and has written about malicious code for About.com, SecurityPortal, AtomicTangerine, Ubizen, iDEFENSE, and VeriSign. He is
one of the pioneers of Internet community anti-virus support with websites rated as the best global resource by Yahoo Internet Life,
PC WEEK, AOL and many others. Mr. Dunham is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), Government Emergency
Telecommunications and Wireless Priority Service, AVIEN, Virus Bulletin, InfraGard, an RCG Information Security Think Tank, CME, and
many other private information sharing channels. Mr. Dunham also participated in the CIA Silent Horizon (blue team) and DHS CyberStorm
(observer) exercises. Mr. Dunham is a certified reverse engineer and regularly analyzes emergent exploits and malicious code threats
and actors targeting client networks. He also works as a Wildlist Reporter each month with the Wildlist organization. He is the author
of several books and is a regular columnist for an information security magazine. Mr. Dunham is also the founder of Boise Idaho Information
Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Idaho InfraGard chapters.
Description
Malware has gone mobile, and the security landscape is changing quickly with emerging attacks on cell phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices.
This first book on the growing threat covers a wide range of malware targeting operating systems like Symbian and new devices like the
iPhone. Examining code in past, current, and future risks, protect your banking, auctioning, and other activities performed on mobile
devices.
* Visual Payloads
View attacks as visible to the end user, including notation of variants.
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Timeline of Mobile Hoaxes and Threats
Understand the history of major attacks and horizon for emerging threates.
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Overview of Mobile Malware Families
Identify and understand groups of mobile malicious code and their variations.
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Taxonomy of Mobile Malware
Bring order to known samples based on infection, distribution, and payload strategies.
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Phishing, SMishing, and Vishing Attacks
Detect and mitigate phone-based phishing (vishing) and SMS phishing (SMishing) techniques.
* Operating System and Device Vulnerabilities
Analyze unique OS security issues and examine offensive mobile device
threats.
* Analyze Mobile Malware
Design a sandbox for dynamic software analysis and use MobileSandbox
to analyze mobile malware.
* Forensic Analysis of Mobile Malware
Conduct forensic analysis of mobile devices and
learn key differences in mobile forensics.
* Debugging and Disassembling Mobile Malware
Use IDA and other tools
to reverse-engineer samples of malicious code for analysis.
* Mobile Malware Mitigation Measures
Qualify risk, understand
threats to mobile assets, defend against attacks, and remediate incidents.
Audience
Cellular providers, security professionals in finance and banking industry, anti-virus developers and consultants, as well as security researchers.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction to Mobile Malware
Chapter 2
Visual
Payloads
Chapter 3
Timeline of Mobile Malware, Hoaxes, and Threats
Chapter 4
Overview of Mobile
Malware Families
Chapter 5
Taxonomy of Mobile Malware
Chapter 6
Phishing, SMishing, and Vishing
Chapter 7
Operating System and Device Vulnerability
Chapter 8
Analyzing Mobile Malware
Chapter
9
Forensic Analysis of Mobile Malware
Chapter 10
Debugging and Disassembly of MMC
Chapter 11
Mobile Malware Mitigation Measures
Glossary of Terms
Index
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Paperback, 440 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-59749-298-0
Imprint: SYNGRESS
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