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Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense
A practical guide to the tools and techniques of electronic surveillance, reconnaissance, and information gathering - and how to defend against these threats
Robert Shimonski (Author)
9780128013083, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 22 October 2014
258 pages, 40 illustrations
23.5 x 19 x 1.7 cm, 0.55 kg
"...an easy-to-read and informative book that can help the general public improve their awareness of cyberthreats and risk-mitigation approaches." --Computing Reviews
At a time when online surveillance and cybercrime techniques are widespread, and are being used by governments, corporations, and individuals, Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense gives you a practical resource that explains how these activities are being carried out and shows how to defend against them. Expert author Rob Shimonski shows you how to carry out advanced IT surveillance and reconnaissance, describes when and how these techniques are used, and provides a full legal background for each threat. To help you understand how to defend against these attacks, this book describes many new and leading-edge surveillance, information-gathering, and personal exploitation threats taking place today, including Web cam breaches, home privacy systems, physical and logical tracking, phone tracking, picture metadata, physical device tracking and geo-location, social media security, identity theft, social engineering, sniffing, and more.
Chapter 1: Digital Reconnaissance Chapter 2: Information Gathering Chapter 3: Social Engineering Chapter 4: Mobile Phone Tracking Chapter 5: Physical Device Tracking Chapter 6: Web Camera Tracking Chapter 7: Data Capture and Exploitation Chapter 8: Protection Methods
Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], Computer security [UR]