Inside The SPAM Cartel-Trade Secrets From The Dark Side

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Spammer X

Foreword by

Stu Sjouwerman Editor in Chief, W2Knews

Jeffrey Posluns Technical Editor

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Inside the SPAM Cartel

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Technical Editor

Jeffrey Posluns, CISM, CISA, ISSAP, ISSMP, CISSP, SSCP, has over a decade of experience specializing in the management of technology companies, with technical expertise in the analysis of hacker tools and techniques, intrusion detection, forensics, and incident response. Having founded, co-founded, and invested in several e-commerce and security initiatives, he has served in the capacity of president, CTO, and CIO.

Jeffrey speaks at seminars and conferences worldwide for corporate, law enforcement, financial, and legal audiences, where his sessions are most often described as educational and thought provoking. As one of the industry’s leading security professionals, he is a dynamic, highly sought business and technology speaker, an author of multiple books and white papers, and a recognized expert in identifying trends, solving business problems, and resolving security issues for many of the nation’s leading companies.

He has authored, edited, and contributed to a number of books from Syngress Publishing including Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection (ISBN: 1-931836-74-4), the SSCP Certification Study Guide & DVD Training System (ISBN: 1-931836-80-9), and Hack Proofing Your Wireless Networks (ISBN: 1-928994-59-8), as well as having written and contributed to other technological books, white papers, financial and security-related software and toolkits. Jeffrey is also a trainer for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) curriculum. Up to date information on Jeffrey can be found at www.posluns.ca.

Foreword Contributor

Stu Sjouwerman is the President of Sunbelt Software and the publisher of W2Knews, the world’s first and largest e-newsletter specifically focused on NT/W2K system managers. W2Knews has 300,000 weekly readers who have the job of keeping NT/W2K up and running in a production environments. Sunbelt has made it into the INC. 500 Magazine list of fastest-growing, privately-held companies. By 2003, Sunbelt had total revenues of $30M and Stu had co-authored three books on Windows system administration, including the bestselling Windows NT Power Toolkit. Sunbelt’s mostpopular product is iHateSpam, which is the best selling anti-spam solution for Microsoft Exchange sites with 5,000 installations, and 250,000 end users using iHateSpam on their personal computers. Stu lives in Bellair, FL.

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