<p>At a time when online surveillance and cybercrime techniques are widespread, and are being used by governments, corporations, and individuals, <i>Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense</i> gives you a practical resource that explains how these activities are being carried out and shows how to defend against them.</p> <p>Expert author Rob Shimonski shows you how to carry out advanced IT surveillance and reconnaissance, describes when and how these techniques are used, and provides a full legal background for each threat. To help you understand how to defend against these attacks, this book describes many new and leading-edge surveillance, information-gathering, and personal exploitation threats taking place today, including Web cam breaches, home privacy systems, physical and logical tracking, phone tracking, picture metadata, physical device tracking and geo-location, social media security, identity theft, social engineering, sniffing, and more.</p><ul><li>Understand how IT surveillance and reconnaissance techniques are being used to track and monitor activities of individuals and organizations</li><li>Find out about the legal basis of these attacks and threats — what is legal and what is not — and how to defend against any type of surveillance</li><li>Learn how to thwart monitoring and surveillance threats with practical tools and techniques</li><li>Real-world examples teach using key concepts from cases in the news around the world</li></ul>