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An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

By : Kushantha Gunawardana
Book Image

An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

By: Kushantha Gunawardana

Overview of this book

As the world becomes more connected through the web, new data collection innovations have opened up more ways to compromise privacy. Your actions on the web are being tracked, information is being stored, and your identity could be stolen. However, there are ways to use the web without risking your privacy. This book will take you on a journey to become invisible and anonymous while using the web. You will start the book by understanding what anonymity is and why it is important. After understanding the objective of cyber anonymity, you will learn to maintain anonymity and perform tasks without disclosing your information. Then, you’ll learn how to configure tools and understand the architectural components of cybereconomy. Finally, you will learn to be safe during intentional and unintentional internet access by taking relevant precautions. By the end of this book, you will be able to work with the internet and internet-connected devices safely by maintaining cyber anonymity.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Basics of Privacy and Cyber Anonymity
4
Part 2: Methods and Artifacts That Attackers and Competitors Can Collect from You
9
Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

access controls 25

Active Directory (AD) 83

active information gathering 80-82

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) 83, 144

AdGuard Desktop app 226

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 143, 265-279

AFLogical OSE 94

AltDNS 78

AMASS 77

Andriller 93

Android

privacy and anonymity, improving on 207, 208

Android Data Extractor Lite 94

Android devices

app tracking, blocking on 209

AndroRAT 93

anonymity 161-165

anonymizers 250

advantages 250

Hide My Ass (HMA) 254

Kproxy 254, 255

ProxySite 255

Zendproxy 251, 252

Anonymouse 252, 253

reference link 252

anti-tracking software 225

features 227-230

options 225-227

application-level attacks 133

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) 105

applications

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