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Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?
- By Greg Conti
- Published Oct 10, 2008 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Copyright 2009
- Dimensions: 7x9-1/4
- Pages: 360
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-51866-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-51866-8
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Product Author Bios
Greg Conti is an assistant professor of computer science at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. His research includes security data visualization, usable security, information warfare, and web-based information disclosure. He is the author of Security Data Visualization (No Starch Press, 2007) and has been featured in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine. He has spoken at a wide range of academic and hacker conferences, including Black Hat, DEFCON, and the Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC). Conti runs the open source security visualization project RUMINT. His work can be found at www.gregconti.com/ and www.rumint.org/.
What Does Google Know about You? And Who Are They Telling?
When you use Google’s “free” services, you pay, big time–with personal information about yourself. Google is making a fortune on what it knows about you…and you may be shocked by just how much Google does know. Googling Security is the first book to reveal how Google’s vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business–and what you can do to protect yourself.
Unlike other books on Google hacking, this book covers information you disclose when using all of Google’s top applications, not just what savvy users can retrieve via Google’s search results. West Point computer science professor Greg Conti reveals the privacy implications of Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Groups, Google Alerts, Google’s new mobile applications, and more. Drawing on his own advanced security research, Conti shows how Google’s databases can be used by others with bad intent, even if Google succeeds in its pledge of “don’t be evil.”
- Uncover the trail of informational “bread crumbs” you leave when you use Google search
- How Gmail could be used to track your personal network of friends, family, and acquaintances
- How Google’s map and location tools could disclose the locations of your home, employer, family and friends, travel plans, and intentions
- How the information stockpiles of Google and other online companies may be spilled, lost, taken, shared, or subpoenaed and later used for identity theft or even blackmail
- How the Google AdSense and DoubleClick advertising services could track you around the Web
- How to systematically reduce the personal information you expose or give away
This book is a wake-up call and a “how-to” self-defense manual: an indispensable resource for everyone, from private citizens to security professionals, who relies on Google.
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Author xxi
Chapter 1: Googling 1
Chapter 2: Information Flows and Leakage 31
Chapter 3: Footprints, Fingerprints, and Connections 59
Chapter 4: Search 97
Chapter 5: Communications 139
Chapter 6: Mapping, Directions, and Imagery 177
Chapter 7: Advertising and Embedded Content 205
Chapter 8: Googlebot 239
Chapter 9: Countermeasures 259
Chapter 10: Conclusions and a Look to the Future 299
Index 317
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book that explores the many security risks around Google and other search engines,
This review is from: Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You? (Paperback)
It has been suggested that if one was somehow able to change history so that aspirin had never been discovered until now, it would have died in the lab and stand no chance of FDA approval. In a report from the Manhattan Institute, they write that no modern drug development organization would touch it. Similarly, if we knew the power that Google would have in 2008 with its ability to aggregate and correlate personal data, it is arguable that various regulatory and privacy bodies would never allow it to exist given the extensive privacy issues.In a fascinating and eye-opening new book Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?, author Greg Conti explores the many security risks around Google and other search engines. Part of the problem is that in the rush to get content onto the web, organizations often give short shrift to the security and privacy of their data. At the individual level, those who make use of the innumerable and ever expanding amount of... Read more
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
resistance is futile, By
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In buying this book on amazon, and leaving a review on amazon, the net knows that much more about me.This book addresses one of those game theory scenarios, where whats good for the collective (maximum data) is bad for the individual (loss of privacy). The rational response is to let everyone else fully disclose and capitalize on that, while maintaining your own privacy. I probably knew most of the material in this book beforehand, being in tech, but its unlikely I can abide by the recommendations. My Google RSS Reader is loaded up with 100+ feeds, some of which spool up 100 articles per day. Google Calender is best of breed. And Google Email offers POP/IMAP for free, whereas Yahoo email does not. All three of these "killer apps" work best when logged in continuously. So I login from home and work, and they stay logged in 24x7. As a result, whenever something pops in my head, and I do a search, Google is able to track that, and tie that to my name because... Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Good, but may be preaching to the choir,
This review is from: Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You? (Paperback)
This is a well written book, and an interesting read. It really points out the possibility in data mining the details from what you give Google via search, mail, finance or other services they offer. The downside to the book is if you are already a privacy enthusiast you already know most of the material, so it may be preaching to the choir. Still, it's a good book to hand to your less techie friends so they understand what they expose about themselves online.
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Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Author xxi
Chapter 1: Googling 1
Chapter 2: Information Flows and Leakage 31
Chapter 3: Footprints, Fingerprints, and Connections 59
Chapter 4: Search 97
Chapter 5: Communications 139
Chapter 6: Mapping, Directions, and Imagery 177
Chapter 7: Advertising and Embedded Content 205
Chapter 8: Googlebot 239
Chapter 9: Countermeasures 259
Chapter 10: Conclusions and a Look to the Future 299
Index 317
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