Client-Side Attacks and Defense

Introduction
Chapter 1: Background on Attacks
Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Client-Side Attacks
Chapter 3: A History of Web Browsers
Chapter 4: The Problem with Browsers
Chapter 5: Exploring and Exploiting Active Content
Chapter 6: Browser Defenses
Chapter 7: E-mail Client Attacks
Chapter 8: E-mail Client Defenses
Chapter 9: Web Applications
Chapter 10: Web Applications and Client Defenses
Chapter 11: Other Client-Side Attack Targets
Chapter 12: Malware
Chapter 13: Client-Side Countermeasures
Chapter 14: The Road Ahead

Sean-Philip Oriyano (CISSP, CNDA, CEH, MCSE) is a veteran of the Information Teechnology and engineering fields, working with a wide variety of organizations to deliver unique and innovative solutions. He has spent his time in the field working with nearly all aspects of IT and management with special emphasis on Information Security concepts, techniques, and practices. Sean is an advocate of strong security knowledge and practices, has workd with clients such as the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and has been sought out to instruct at locations such as the U.S. Air Force Academy and Naval War College.



Sean is an experienced content developer and technical writer who has published articles on the IT and Information Security fields. Sean counts IBM, Amazon, Autodesk, and Microsoft among his clients. Sean publishes content regularly and publishes this information on his web site at www.oriyano.com and shares his knowledge in his classes and lectures.



Sean is a member of EC-Council, InfraGard, and BECCA. Rob Shimonski (www.shimonski.com) is an experienced entrepreneur and an active participant in the business community. Rob is a best-selling author and editor with over 15 years experience developing, producing and distributing print media in the form of books, magazines and periodicals. To date, Rob has successfully created over 100 books that are currently in circulation. Rob has worked for countless companies to include CompTIA, Entrepreneur Magazine, Microsoft, McGraw Hill Education, Cisco, the National Security Agency and Digidesign. Rob has an extremely diverse background in the print media industry filling roles such as author, co-author, technical editor, copy editor and developmental editor. Since print media shifted to the digital domain, Rob has focused the past decade on developing all of the needed skills to produce professional audio and video media. An expert in Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) design and video