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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]

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