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An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

You're reading from   An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity Concepts, tools, and techniques to protect your anonymity from criminals, unethical hackers, and governments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810210
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kushantha Gunawardana Kushantha Gunawardana
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics of Privacy and Cyber Anonymity
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Sensitive Information FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Ways That Attackers Use Your Data 4. Part 2: Methods and Artifacts That Attackers and Competitors Can Collect from You
5. Chapter 3: Ways That Attackers Reveal the Privacy of Individuals and Companies 6. Chapter 4: Techniques that Attackers Use to Compromise Privacy 7. Chapter 5: Tools and Techniques That Attackers Use 8. Chapter 6: Artifacts that Attackers Can Collect from You 9. Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity
10. Chapter 7: Introduction to Cyber Anonymity 11. Chapter 8: Understanding the Scope of Access 12. Chapter 9: Avoiding Behavior Tracking Applications and Browsers 13. Chapter 10: Proxy Chains and Anonymizers 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Increase the attack surface using sensitive data

Previously, we discussed the main elements of attacks including vulnerabilities. If the vulnerabilities cannot be recovered, attackers could try to create vulnerabilities. From the users’ perspective, we need to reduce vulnerabilities as much as possible. The challenge is that there can be vulnerabilities in the system that have not yet been recovered or published. We can only remove vulnerabilities that are known. Unknown or undiscovered vulnerabilities are typically referred to as zero days.

Even though we conduct vulnerability assessments, we conduct an assessment based on known vulnerabilities. To battle against zero days, we need to reduce the attacker surface. An attacker surface is a set of entry points or boundaries in the environment that attackers can use to try to enter, create connections, and exfiltrate data from the systems, system components, or infrastructure. To increase security, we need to always try to decrease...

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