Contents About the Authors .....................................................................................................ix Acknowledgments.....................................................................................................xi Introduction .............................................................................................................xiii CHAPTER 1 Social Networking Infrastructure Attacks ................................. 1 Bringing the Social Networks to Their Knees ................................1 What Happened to the Social Networks? ...................................2 Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks .......................................3 Owning the Social Network .......................................................8 How Could This Happen? ..........................................................8 Saving the Social Networks and Ourselves ...................................16 The Floodgates Have Opened, What Do I Do? ........................16 Beating the Bot .........................................................................19 Cutting the Strings ....................................................................21 Summary .......................................................................................21 CHAPTER 2 Malware Attacks................................................................... 23 Malware Defined ...........................................................................24