Internet Security

In a world of digital technology, it’s easy to forget one sobering fact: Our identity can be stolen from under our noses, with one click of the mouse, propelling us into nightmares in a matter of minutes, anytime, anywhere, and on any one of our darling gadgets. Cybercrimes, malware, botnets, and all forms of digital threats are ever more sophisticated, waiting in the shadows for that one opportunity to steal your sensitive information.

This eye-opening book provides vital information that has been out of reach to those who need it most—the millions of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft users who have come to love and depend upon these digital products. Veteran consumer advocate Jane Hoffman makes the complex world of Big Tech simple to grasp as she reveals exactly how Big Tech uses—and abuses—your personal information. And she proposes a bold blueprint for reforming these corporate behemoths.

Combating cybercrime is a necessity of doing business in the 21st century. Financial and identity thefts occur with annoying frequency, and no executive today can afford to ignore the damage phishing, malware, and malicious code pose to their company's future. But with this invaluable guide, anyone, no matter what their skill level or bandwidth, can become an effective cyber risk manager.

Well Aware offers a timely take on the leadership issues that businesses face when it comes to the threat of hacking. Finney argues that cybersecurity is not a technology problem; it’s a people problem. Cybersecurity should be understood as a series of nine habits that should be mastered - literacy, skepticism, vigilance, secrecy, culture, diligence, community, mirroring, and deception - drawn from knowledge the author has acquired during two decades of experience in cybersecurity. By implementing these habits and changing our behaviors, we can combat most security problems.

Billions of people around the globe use various applications of spatial computing daily - by using a ride-sharing app, GPS, social media check-ins, even Pokemon Go. Scientists and researchers use spatial computing to track diseases, map the bottom of the oceans, chart the behavior of endangered species, and create election maps in real time. Drones and driverless cars use a variety of spatial computing technologies. Spatial computing works by understanding the physical world, knowing and communicating our relation to places in that world, and navigating through those places.

From the moment we wake up and unlock our phones, we're producing data. We offer up our unique fingerprint to the online world, scan our route to work, listen to a guided meditation or favourite playlist, slide money around, share documents and update our social media accounts. We reach for our phones up to 200 times a day, not knowing which companies are storing, using, selling and manipulating our data.

Unravel the intricate layers of modern cybersecurity with the comprehensive guide to the CompTIA CASP+ Certification Advanced Security Practitioner. Dive into the depths of this dynamic field as this book becomes your companion in mastering the multifaceted world of digital defense. This guide will equip both novice and seasoned professionals with the arsenal needed to fortify their expertise. Each chapter serves as a gateway into a domain crucial for fortifying networks, mitigating risks, and mastering advanced security practices.

The general data protection regulation or GDPR is a 57,500+ worded legislation that applies to every business or organization that handles personal information of those citizens living in EU and the UK, regardless of the size of the organization. For many small businesses, complying with GDPR is a daunting task, but it doesn’t need to be.

Today's teenagers spend about nine hours per day online. Parents of this ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should an 8-year-old be allowed to go on social media? How can parents help their children gain the most from the best aspects of the digital age? How can we keep kids safe from digital harm?

Hacking audiobook is intended to serve as an intermediate-level guide to some common penetration testing tools and skills - particularly those of wireless hacking and of maintaining anonymity. The audiobook concentrates more on practical execution, and provides some step-by-step procedures for installing essential platforms and tools, as well as the theory behind some basic attacks. Gain the ability to do ethical hacking and penetration testing by taking this hacking audiobook!

For a beginner, hacking can seem like something scary or hard to do. Sometimes, we see movies and read the news on how systems such as Snapchat, eBay, or Google have been compromised and imagine that hacking is difficult. We think of it as something meant for people spending 24 hours a day in a basement, somewhere. This is not the case. This field is open for anyone.

If you want to avoid getting hacked, having your information spread, and discover the world of ethical hacking then pay attention.... Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Cybersecurity: An Essential Guide to Computer and Cyber Security for Beginners, Including Ethical Hacking, Risk Assessment, Social Engineering, Attack and Defense Strategies, and Cyber-Warfare, Ethical Hacking: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Using Penetration Testing to Audit and Improve the Cyber-Security of Computer Networks, Including Tips on Social Engineering.

The dark web carries many controversies regarding anonymity in today's era. Still, with that much information out there, it is hard to know which side is right. But what if you were given the chance to form your own opinion? This audiobook gives you condensed information about this complex topic.

If you don't fix your security vulnerabilities, attackers will exploit them. It's simply a matter of who finds them first. If you fail to prove that your software is secure, your sales are at risk too. Whether you're a technology executive, developer, or security professional, you are responsible for securing your application.

In The Reign of Botnets, fraud and bot detection expert David Senecal delivers a timely and incisive presentation of the contemporary bot threat landscape and the latest defense strategies used by leading companies to protect themselves. The author uses plain language to lift the veil on bots and fraud, making a topic critical to your website's security easy to understand and even easier to implement.

In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, who began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly steal financial data from consumers.

The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Berners-Lee famously shared his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything – transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream and connect.

Your data has already been sold...Get it back. There are so many times when we are online, and we need to make sure that our data is safe. We assume that we are doing a good job with a bit of anti-virus protection and carefully selecting what sites we visit. But when some of the big companies we trust, including Facebook, Google, and more, are willing to gather up as much data as they can about all our lives (whether online or not) and then sell it make money, it’s hard to know how safe our information really is.

Companies that can use technology wisely and well are booming, and companies that make bad or no technology choices collapse and disappear. The cloud, smart devices, and the ability to connect almost any object to the internet are an essential landscape to use but are also fraught with new risks and dangers of a magnitude never seen before. The bad actors are in on this, too, and it creates a real problem right now for every individual and business.

Malicious cyber actors recognize our dependence on technology and constantly attempt to exploit this reliance for financial or strategic gain. Too often, they succeed. Their success is enabled by an environment of insecurity, in which our enterprises are too difficult to defend, and our technology products are too vulnerable to protect.