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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-b... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274