Crimeware

Footnotes

Chapter 1

¹ SMTP is the standard protocol for mail transmission over the Internet.

² Botnets can be used to carry out a plethora of malicious activities; they are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 7.

³ A more detailed exposition on pharming can be found in the text edited by Jakobsson and Myers [202].

⁴ A rootkit is a component that uses various stealthing techniques to mask its presence on a machine. Rootkits are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 8.

⁵ Informally, the attack surface of a system refers to the different mechanisms by which an attacker can attack (and potentially compromise or damage) the system.

⁶ http://insecure.org/nmap

Chapter 2

^* Parts of this chapter appeared in [424] and parts have been adapted from