Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Security, Spear Phishing and Social Engineering on EtoBox?

Security, Spear Phishing and Social Engineering by Sumner, Stuart is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Security, Spear Phishing and Social Engineering about?

Everything we do online, and increasingly in the real world, is tracked, logged, analyzed, and often packaged and sold on to the highest bidder. Every time you visit a website, use a credit card, drive on the freeway, or go past a CCTV camera, you are logged and tracked. Every day billions of people choose to share their details on social media, which are then sold to advertisers. The Edward Snowden revelations that governments - including those of the US and UK – have been snooping on their citizens, have rocked the world. But nobody seems to realize that this has already been happening for years, with firms such as Google capturing everything you type into a browser and selling it to the highest bidder. Apps take information about where you go, and your contact book details, harvest them and sell them on – and people just click the EULA without caring. No one is revealing the dirty secret that is the tech firms harvesting customers'personal data and selling it for vast profits – and people are totally unaware of the dangers. You: For Sale is for anyone who is concerned about what corporate and government invasion of privacy means now and down the road. The book sets the scene by

Author
Sumner, Stuart
Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9780128034057

More by Sumner, Stuart

Browse all works by Sumner, Stuart