Privacy Online: The Practical Privacy Guide For Anyone

By Roger Fassinou

Nowadays, everyone takes security as a serious matter: individuals, companies, institutions, organizations, and government. Everyone cares about privacy; well, I hope you too. At some point, people usually do not want information to be released for various reasons; for instance, what will happen if a naïve government employee queries a government database and messes up sending user Social Security Number to someone? Or maybe what if an attacker listens to communications between two hosts (assuming 2 diplomatic agencies)? Let’s even assume at home: you have some children browsing the web, using computers or tablets for games, streaming songs or downloading videos, all kinds of stuffs. Children like to do things online; however, they are unaware of what is out there and do not understand the risk they are taking online. So, it is your responsibility to educate and help them securing their online browsing in order to be safe. To triumph, this book comes handy to everyone who needs privacy; in other words, it makes easier for anyone to understand step by step the best practices for everyday use of Internet: beginner, medium, advanced, and addicted of Internet. Today, Internet is our home, our office, and business.
The question of security of information, privacy and confidentiality seems to be more than a personal interest. It has become a big concern for parents, administrations, institutions, corporations (public or private), agencies, etc. In a multi-user environment, we use what known as encryption to secure the communication over (probably an insecure) channel. The question: is that enough? This book explains online privacy issues and provides methods and tips to be safe from online attacks and thefts. You don’t need to be experts to understand and use this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roger Fassinou
• Release date: Feb 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310227455

Roger Fassinou

Hello I am Roger, currently living in Chicago, United States. I am an Ethical Hacker and Web Applications Penetration Tester, also a Professional Websites Developer and Senior Android Applications Developer.

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Privacy online: the practical privacy guide for anyone

Roger Fassinou

Published by Roger fassinou at Smashwords

Copyright 2015 Roger Fassinou

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Table of Contents

Preface

Abstract

Chapter 1-The Internet of 21st century

Section 1-The layers of security

Chapter 2-Before landing on Internet

Section 1-Select your browser

Section 2-Configure your browser

Section 3-Advanced settings (for more protection)

Chapter 3-While on Internet

Section 1-The Dos (always do that)

Section 2-The Don’t (Never do that)

Chapter 4-After exiting Internet

Chapter 5-Passwords

Section 1-Why do you need a password?

Section 2-How not to store a password?

Chapter 6-Recent successful attacks

Section 1-Social engineering attacks

Section 2-Phishing attack

Section 3-You can avoid it

Chapter 7-How to authenticate Human?

Chapter 8-How do I know my computer has been hacked?

Section 1-New programs installed

Section 2-Signs of a hacker attendance

Section 3-Password has been modified unexpected

Section 4-Network bandwidth has changed

Section 5-Have I been hacked?

Chapter 9-If you are a victim

Chapter 10-References

Thank You Note

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Preface

Dear Reader,

What I am about to reveal may be out of scope, very essential tools and methods that would save you tons of hassle and save you time and money; The main goal of this book is to raise awareness that the rules of the Internet have changed.

In writing this book, I am making three assumptions: first, I am assuming that you are a simple user of Internet; in other words, no technical or experience is required to understand the book. The primary target of this book is the high school children mostly and the parents. Second, I am assuming that not everyone knows online security tips and best practices. My third assumption is that you speak English, even if I am planning to release a translation in other languages, I do apologize for the time it will take. However, if anyone would like to contribute, I would love to discuss that option to make this book available in many other languages. If you think you can, simply reach out me by using my contact information at the end of this book.

Besides, by writing this book, I would like to be grateful to my Professor Dr. Matthew Butcher who