The fact is that we live with an illusion of privacy, and we probably have been living this way for decades. When Oliver showed him the interviews from Times Square, in which one person after another professed not to know who Snowden was, his response was, "Well, you can't have everyone well informed. And because we don't see this information, we might believe that we are invisible to our exes, our parents, our schools, our bosses, and even our governments. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your know.

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Interesting story: I was at a friend's house—a very well-known Microsoft employee—and during dinner we were discussing the security of passwords with his wife and child.Corporations track consumers’ online activity and purchases and use the information to target their ads. Except now there's a data trail to prove it just a few taps away, available to any person who wants it.

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In general, the more characters in your password, the longer it will take password-guessing programs such as John the Ripper to run through all the possible variations. Your computer, your phone, your car, your home alarm system, even your refrigerator are all potential points of access into your private life. Even US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer agrees that it is "difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation. Password managers also make it difficult if not impossible to reset all of your credentials at once because without the master password, there’s no way into the program itself. From fully custom pentests to red teaming to security awareness training, Kevin Mitnick and The Global Ghost Team are here to raise your security posture.Despite the hidden/incognito mode provided by all major browsers, your credentials still travel through your ISP.

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No defense against these intrusions is perfect; even if you’re careful with what you share online, hackers will still find a way into your accounts eventually. Everyone interviewed in the Times Square segment agreed that people in the United States should be able to share anything—even a photo of a penis—privately over the Internet. Pop up windows can display no visible elements, for the only sake of connecting to third parties and tracking. However, the greater number of devices we use also means that there are more ways for people to access our personal information.If anything, this book will make you aware of ways to be private within the digital world and offer solutions that you may or may not choose to adopt. But since that access has been gained gradually, since we've embraced each small digital convenience without resisting its impact on our privacy, it becomes increasingly hard to turn back the clock. Protecting passwords of online services only works if you’re keep your physical devices safe as well.

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Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.As a result of these experiments, Cui and his adviser, Salvatore Stolfo, argued that printers were weak links in any organization or home. One of the tools openly discussed on the forum, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, or EPPB, is intended to enable law enforcement and government agencies to access iCloud accounts and is sold publicly.