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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

Summary

This chapter focused on the different artifacts that attackers collect from target users and companies. As well as attackers, competitors collect large amounts of information from you. Attackers target devices to collect information using different approaches. Devices collect and keep various information about users and their activities. When a device is compromised, attackers will have access to this information. We also looked at the ways attackers compromise networks. Finally, we discussed the ways attackers compromise browsers and the types of information that can be collected from the browsers.

In the next chapter, we will explain what cyber anonymity is and its different levels, as well as the difference between privacy and anonymity. We will also explain the best practices to maintain cyber anonymity. Cyber anonymity is not something that you might have to do only once, but you need to develop a cyber-anonymity mindset to properly maintain cyber anonymity and face...

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