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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

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Phishing is another technique that attackers commonly employ to compromise sensitive information. Phishing is a process of attempting to acquire sensitive information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity. Phishing can be used as an open attack or targeting attack. When a targeted attack is conducted on an organization or a user, then the attack is known as spear phishing. We have discussed various ways that attackers use phishing techniques and tools in the Social engineering section of Chapter 4, Techniques that Attackers Use to Compromise Privacy. The first-ever known phishing attack was reported in 1996, but a paper published in 1987 by the HP user group described a phishing technique 10 years before the real attack took place. Interestingly, in over 90% of successful data breaches, phishing is involved in some way according to the well-known security research company, KnowBe4. Phishing has over three and a half decades of history and has been constantly evolving...

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