{"id":668,"date":"2012-01-21T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinfosearch.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2012-01-21T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:13:21","slug":"googling-security-how-much-does-google-know-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinfosearch.com\/2012\/01\/21\/googling-security-how-much-does-google-know-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theinfosearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-41j4gK4DnUL.jpg\" alt=\"Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?\"width=\"300\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 7px;\"  \/><P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><B>What Does Google Know about You? And Who Are They Telling?<\/B><\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><B>\u00a0<\/B><\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">When you use Google\u2019s \u201cfree\u201d services, you pay, big time\u2013with personal information about yourself. Google is making a fortune on what it knows about you\u2026and you may be shocked by just how much Google does know. <I>Googling Security<\/I> is the first book to reveal how Google\u2019s vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business\u2013and what you can do to protect yourself.<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Unlike other books on Google hacking, this book covers information you disclose when using all of Google\u2019s top applications, not just what savvy users can retrieve via Google\u2019s search results. West Point computer science professor Greg Conti reveals the privacy implications of Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Groups, Google Alerts, Google\u2019s new mobile applications, and more. Drawing on his own advanced security research, Conti shows how Google\u2019s databases can be used by others with bad intent, even if Google succeeds in its pledge of \u201cdon\u2019t be evil.\u201d<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P>  <UL>  <LI>  <DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Uncover the trail of informational \u201cbread crumbs\u201d you leave when you use Google search <\/DIV><\/LI>  <LI>  <DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">How Gmail could be used to track your personal network of friends, family, and acquaintances<\/DIV><\/LI>  <LI>  <DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">How Google\u2019s map and location tools could disclose the locations of your home, employer, family and friends, travel plans, and intentions<\/DIV><\/LI>  <LI>  <DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">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<\/DIV><\/LI>  <LI>  <DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">How the Google AdSense and DoubleClick advertising services could track you around the Web<\/DIV><\/LI>  <LI>  <DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">How to systematically reduce the personal information you expose or give away<\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">This book is a wake-up call and a \u201chow-to\u201d self-defense manual: an indispensable resource for everyone, from private citizens to security professionals, who relies on Google.<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Preface xiii<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Acknowledgments xix<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">About the Author xxi<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 1: Googling 1<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 2: Information Flows and Leakage 31<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 3: Footprints, Fingerprints, and Connections 59<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 4: Search 97<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 5: Communications 139<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 6: Mapping, Directions, and Imagery 177<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 7: Advertising and Embedded Content 205<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 8: Googlebot 239<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 9: Countermeasures 259<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Chapter 10: Conclusions and a Look to the Future 299<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Index 317<\/P>  <P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n<p><b>Price: <\/b>$49.99<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0321518667\/ref=nosim\/dx5c-20\" title=\"Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You?\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here to buy from Amazon<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does Google Know about You? 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