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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810210

Length 322 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

Kushantha Gunawardana

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Artifacts that competitors would like to collect

As discussed in the previous section, attackers are interested in collecting artifacts from you. These artifacts contain valuable information about you. These artifacts are used to find more information about targets. Some artifacts even contain the buying and surfing patterns of a user. For example, there are artifacts that keep information about most frequently visited websites, items of interest, and items purchased over the internet. For this reason, competitors are also interested in collecting artifacts from individuals and competitor companies. Mainly, they use cookies, known as third-party cookies, to collect information about competitors and individuals. If you understand how cookies work, then you can block and prevent disclosing your information as an individual or a company.

These tracking cookies can be categorized as direct web tracking cookies and third-party tracking cookies.