Shimonski presents readers, IT professionals, and business managers with a detailed examination of cybercrime techniques and online surveillance, and how to defend assets against them. The author covers how to carry out advanced IT surveillance and reconnaissance, information gathering, social engineering, mobile phone tracking, physical device tracking, web camera and video tracking, data capture and exploitation, provides the legal background of all threats, and provides protection methods for each. Rob Shimonski is a professional in the field of general security and IT security. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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.
- Understand how IT surveillance and reconnaissance techniques are being used to track and monitor activities of individuals and organizations
- Find out about the legal basis of these attacks and threats — what is legal and what is not — and how to defend against any type of surveillance
- Learn how to thwart monitoring and surveillance threats with practical tools and techniques
- Real-world examples teach using key concepts from cases in the news around the world
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"...an easy-to-read and informative book that can help the general public improve their awareness of cyberthreats and risk-mitigation approaches." --Computing Reviews
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A practical guide to the tools and techniques of electronic surveillance, reconnaissance, and information gathering - and how to defend against these threats
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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| Chapter 1 Digital Reconnaissance and Surveillance |
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Digital reconnaissance and surveillance |
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Legal and ethical principles |
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| Chapter 2 Information Gathering |
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| Chapter 3 Social Engineering |
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Mitigation of social engineering |
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| Chapter 4 Mobile Phone Tracking |
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| Chapter 5 Physical Device Tracking |
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| Chapter 6 Web Camera and Video Tracking |
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| Chapter 7 Data Capture and Exploitation |
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| Chapter 8 Protection Methods |
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Robert Shimonski is a technology executive specializing in healthcare IT for one of the largest health systems in America. In his role at Northwell Health, Rob is a decision maker and strategy planner for information systems operations and technology services. In his current role, Rob is responsible for bringing operational support into the future with the help of new technologies such as cloud and Artificial Intelligence. He is a best-selling author and editor with over 15 years experience developing, producing, and distributing print media in the form of books, magazines, and periodicals. Robs professional experience includes work for CompTIA, Entrepreneur Magazine, Microsoft, McGraw-Hill Education, Cisco, the US National Security Agency, and Digidesign. Rob has a diverse background in the publishing, including roles such as author, co-author, technical editor, copy editor, and developmental editor. Since print media shifted to the digital domain, Rob has focused the past decade on developing the needed skills to produce professional audio and video media. His research interests are focused on innovation and developing new solutions to create efficiency and bringing forth better outcomes through technology solutions. Rob has a masters degree in IT Management and a masters degree in Industrial Psychology. He is author of Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense, Introduction to Microsoft Certification and Study Skills, and MCSA Windows Server 2003 Upgrade to Server 2008 Technology Specialist Exam Prep from Syngress/Elsevier.
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