Foreword.
Authors.
1 Digital world.
Security gaps
Industry gap
2 It is your money.
Digital banking 17
Online banking 17
Digital payment 18
Fraud detection 20...
3 Your socially, social media.
URL shorteners lengthen the problem 38
What if we had the power to verify URLs? 39
Say hello to fraudsters 45
Dumpster diving and the tale of your ID 46
Importance of privacy settings in social media profiles 49
4 Knock, knock, anybody there?
Email, malware, and phishing: The deadly trio 57
Everywhere, malware 57
Types of malware 58
A sneak peek into free watching 58
Delivery of malware and modes of delivery 59
Email the preferred partner for malware and phishing 60
How to identify phishing and tricks: Typosquatting and green lock SSL 63
Email dropping malware: how it tricks one and either steals or drops malware 66
The rise of document and pdf malware 68
Real-world scenes: Exercise and case study 70
5 Power up and ready to strike.
5.1 The uninvited guests 77
5.2 What’s up, doc? 79
5.3 ­Macro: The ­micro-executioner 81
5.4 No strings attached 84
5.5 Payload & parked domains, loading... 89
5.6 Who? What? Where? 90
5.7 ­PDF- graphically malicious 92
5.8 Image EXIF header malware 94...
6 The guardians of the Internet.
6.1 IDS 106
6.2 Multiple personality disorder of IDS 106
6.3 SNORT 107
6.4 ­Obfuscation: The magic trick that attackers follow to evade 116
6.4.1 Case study: Screen saver that is not a saver! 120
6.5 The DLL injection 124
7 Need of the hour: The tech fundamentals.
7.1 Operating systems: A bigger picture 129
7.2 File ­systems: Linux/­Unix file systems 130
7.3 ­Processes: How and why is it important? 132
7.4 Shell scripting: A quick visit 140
7.5 HTTP (­HyperText Transfer Protocol) 150
8 It is your data.
8.1 Data is gold 155
8.2 Why is your data interesting 156
8.3 How can you lose your data? 162
9 Sensors, software, and severities.
9.1 What is IoT? 177
10 The cyber laws.
11 How to build a career as a digital detective.
11.1 Roles in security 207
11.1.1 Security analyst/ information security analyst 208
11.1.2 Security engineer 208
11.1.3 Security architect 209
11.1.4 PKI analyst/ cryptographer 210
11.1.5 Pen tester 210
11.1.6 Vulnerability assessor 211...
Index.