Ebook Phishing - Cutting the identity theft line

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Ebook Phishing - Cutting the identity theft line Phishing Cutting the Identity Theft Line Rachael Lininger and Russell Dean Vines Phishing Cutting the Identity Theft Line Phishing Cutting the Identity Theft Line Rachael Lininger and Russell Dean Vines Phishing: Cutting the Identity Theft Line Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN 13: 978-07645-8498-5 ISBN 10: 0-7645-8498-7 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/RZ/QU/QV/IN No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copy- right Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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She is not, however, pining for the fjords. Russell Dean Vines, CISSP, CISM, Security +, CCNA, MCSE, and MCNE, is president and founder of The RDV Group Inc. (www.rdvgroup.com), a New York–based security consulting services firm. He has been active in the pre- vention, detection, and remediation of security vulnerabilities for interna- tional corporations, including government, finance, and new media organizations, for many years. Mr. Vines is a specialist in cyber-counterterror- ism, recently focusing on energy and telecommunications vulnerabilities in New York State. He holds high-level certifications in Cisco, 3Com, Ascend, Microsoft, and Novell technologies and is trained in the National Security Agency’s ISSO Information Assessment Methodology. He has headed computer security departments and managed worldwide information systems networks for prominent technology, entertainment, and nonprofit corporations based in New York. He is the author of six bestselling information system security pub- lications, and is a consulting editor for John Wiley and Sons for its information security book series. Mr. Vines’ early professional years were illuminated not by the flicker of a computer monitor but by the bright lights of Nevada casino show rooms. After receiving a Down Beat magazine scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of vii viii About the Authors Music, he performed as a sideman for a variety of well-known entertainers, including George Benson, John Denver, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin. Mr. Vines composed and arranged hundreds of pieces of jazz and contempo- rary music recorded and performed by his own big band and others. He also founded and managed a scholastic music publishing company an ...