An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity: Concepts, tools, and techniques to protect your anonymity from criminals, unethical hackers, and governments

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Basics of Privacy and Cyber Anonymity
Chapter 1: Understanding Sensitive Information
	The categorization of information
	Different forms of sensitive information
	Raw data can create sensitive information
	Privacy in cyberspace
	Cyber anonymity
	Summary
Chapter 2: Ways That Attackers Use Your Data
	Impersonation and identity theft
	Technical, procedural, and physical access
	Technical controls
		Access controls
		Discretionary access control
		Mandatory access control
		Role-based access control
	Procedural controls
	Physical controls
	Creating vulnerabilities to compromise systems
		Vulnerable system
		Exploit for the recovered vulnerability
		The motivation of the attacker
		Creating vulnerabilities
	Increase the attack surface using sensitive data
		Creating entry points and bots
		Zombies and botnets
	Summary
Part 2: Methods and Artifacts That Attackers and Competitors Can Collect from You
Chapter 3: Ways That Attackers Reveal the Privacy of Individuals and Companies
	Cyber exposure index
		WHOIS records
	Everything exposed in cyberspace matters
		Exposing an email address
	We don’t need to enter our real information always
	Facts we shouldn’t be disclosing
		Remove personnel information from WHOIS
		Image meta data
		Disposed devices
		Unsecured cameras
	Social media matters
		Concerns on social media
		Risks involved with social media
		Solutions for the risks introduced by social media
		Spot potential scams on social media
	Summary
Chapter 4: Techniques that Attackers Use to Compromise Privacy
	Information gathering
		Passive information gathering
		Active information gathering
	Enumeration
	Identity exposure
		Online password cracking
		Offline password cracking
	Artifacts that can be collected from devices
	Social engineering
		Types of social engineering
		Tools used by attackers to launch social engineering attacks
		Preventing social engineering attacks
	Summary
Chapter 5: Tools and Techniques That Attackers Use
	Maltego
	Google Advanced Search and dorks
		Dorks
		Google Advanced Search
		Reverse Image Search
	Uvrx Social Search
		Uvrx File Search
		Uvrx Social Search
		Uvrx Health Search
	Open Wi-Fi networks
		What is open Wi-Fi?
		Risks involved with open Wi-Fi
		How to minimize the risks with open Wi-Fi
	Phishing sites
	Summary
Chapter 6: Artifacts that Attackers Can Collect from You
	Artifacts that attackers can collect from you
	Artifacts that competitors would like to collect
		Direct web tracking cookies
		Third-party tracking cookies
		What can tracking cookies do?
		How to handle cookies
		The Brave browser
	Devices can be compromised
	Ways that an attacker can access your networks
		Cloned session
	Compromising browsers
	Summary
Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity
Chapter 7: Introduction to Cyber Anonymity
	Definition of cyber anonymity
	Privacy and anonymity
		What is privacy?
		What is anonymity?
	Levels of cyber anonymity
		Beyond Level 1 and Level 0
		Super-anonymous level
	Best practices to maintain cyber anonymity
	Developing a cyber anonymity mindset
	Summary
Chapter 8: Understanding the Scope of Access
	Understanding the scope of access
	Planning for connectivity
		Types of connections
		How to secure a home network
		Configuring a strong Wi-Fi password
		Device configurations to make it secure
	Understanding the level of access
	Preparing the device
		Virtual machines
		Using live boot versions
		How you can improve privacy and anonymity on Windows 10
		How you can improve privacy and anonymity on your Android or iPhone
	Preparing applications for anonymity
		How to block app tracking on Android devices
		How to block app tracking by iOS devices
	Summary
Chapter 9: Avoiding Behavior Tracking Applications and Browsers
	Avoiding behavior-tracking applications and browsers
		Browser extensions
		Anti-tracking software
	Using secure messaging apps
		Encryption
	Using disposable emails and contact numbers
		Burner phone
		Virtual numbers
	Using virtual machines and virtual applications
		Portable applications
		Virtual desktop and applications
	Summary
Chapter 10: Proxy Chains and Anonymizers
	What proxy chains and anonymizers are (for example, Tor)
		Anonymizers
		Free proxy servers
		Proxy chains
	Censorship circumvention (Psiphon)
	Live OS (for example, Tails)
		Tails
		Qubes OS
	VPN solutions
	Logless services
		The Whonix OS
	Summary
Index
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