Seven Deadliest Social Network Attacks

About the Authors Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Social Networking Infrastructure Attacks     Bringing the Social Networks to Their Knees          What Happened to the Social Networks?          Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks          Owning the Social Network          How Could This Happen?     Saving the Social Networks and Ourselves          The Floodgates Have Opened, What Do I Do?          Beating the Bot          Cutting the Strings     Summary Chapter 2 Malware Attacks     Malware Defined          Understanding the Types of Malware     Cross-Site Scripting Explored          Dissecting Cross-Site Scripting     Introducing Cross-Site Request Forgery          Cross-Site Request Forgery Explored     Protecting Yourself          Mitigating Malware          Mitigating Cross-Site Scripting Attacks          Mitigating Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks     Summary     Endnotes Chapter 3 Phishing Attacks     Phishing Attack Scenarios against Social Networks          What Happened?          How Did It Occur?          What Were the Repercussions?          Phishing Attack against MySpace          Phishing Attack against Twitter     How to Mitigate a Phishing Attack          Take No Immediate Action          Examine the Message          Validate the Source          Take the Offensive          Safeguard Your Computers          Ask for Help     Future Outlook of Phishing Attacks     Summary     Endnotes Chapter 4 Evil Twin Attacks     Evil Twin Attacks Defined          Creating the Evil Twin     Protecting Ourselves and the Ones We Love          Don’t Befriend the Evil Twin          Don’t Become an Evil Twin     Summary     Endnotes Chapter 5 Identity Theft     The Art of Dumpster Diving          Profile of an Identity Thief          How Did Nelson Do It?          Consequences of Stealing Identities     Identity Theft via Facebook          Identity Theft through Social Networking          Clues to How