Googling Security How Much Does Google Know About You?

by Conti, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780321518668
• ISBN10: 0321518667
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-10
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Summary

The first book that reveals how Google's vast database can be used against individuals or companies... and how they can protect themselves.

Author Biography

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/.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
About the Author	p. xxi
Googling	p. 1
Information Flows and Leakage	p. 31
Footprints, Fingerprints, and Connections	p. 59
Search	p. 97
Communications	p. 139
Mapping, Directions, and Imagery	p. 177
Advertising and Embedded Content	p. 205
Googlebot	p. 239
Countermeasures	p. 259
Conclusions and a Look to the Future	p. 299
Index	p. 317
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