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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
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Part 3: Concepts and Maintaining Cyber Anonymity

Maltego

Maltego is a software developed by Paterva, a South African-based software company, to provide a framework to discover the data collected via open source intelligence (OSINT) and visualize it via easy-to-understand graphical representations. This is a very useful tool, as hackers or penetration testers usually try to collect as much information as possible before moving on to the next step. Maltego is treated as one of the best information gathering and data mining tools currently available. Users can query many types of data integrated with Shodan, VirusTotal, archive.org’s Wayback Machine, TinEye, and MITRE ATT&CK. Maltego uses over 50 open intelligent data sources to provide information. It supports public data sources that you can connect to, as well as commercial data sources.

Maltego is one of the most frequently used tools by security testers, forensic investigators, investigative journalists, and researchers and comes pre-installed in many tiger boxes...