An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

Concepts, tools, and techniques to protect your anonymity from criminals, unethical hackers, and governments

Kushantha Gunawardana

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

An Ethical Guide to Cyber Anonymity

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I would like to dedicate this book to my beloved mom Deeliya and dad Chandra for the sacrifices they have made, my mother-in-law Chithra for all her dedication and support rendered, and especially to my courageous wife Amali, my brilliant boys Rivindu and Risindu, and amazing daughter Asekha for their love and support, which helped me to use our very precious yet limited family time to make my dream a reality!

I know my mom, dad, and my mother-in-law are very proud of this, but unfortunately, they wouldn’t really know what this book is all about, as they are from a wonderful generation that was totally disconnected from the cyber world!

Also, I would like to dedicate this book to all my students around the world, the attendees to my training sessions, who always encouraged me to write a book, and all my friends and colleagues for believing in me!

Kushantha Gunawardana

Contributors

About the author

Kushantha Gunawardana is an internationally recognized cybersecurity trainer, security consultant, YouTuber, blogger, and public speaker who won the EC-Council Instructor Circle of Excellence Global Award in 2021. In his 20 years of vast exposure to cybersecurity, he has contributed to many overseas projects and trained thousands of university students, professionals, government employees, and military, and police officers in cybersecurity and forensics in 25 countries.

He holds a master’s degree in IT specializing in networking with distinction from the University of Colombo, was awarded the JICA Award 2011 (Gold Medal), led the team who won the National Hacking Challenge in Sri Lanka in 2013, and is reading for a Ph.D. in cyber forensics.

I want to thank the people who have been close to me, believing in me, and supporting me! Finally, the dedicated team at Packt publication, who pushed me throughout the journey to get this amazing outcome!

About the reviewer

Ahmad Muammar WK currently works as an offensive security director at Seclab Indonesia. He holds Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE), and eLearnSecurity Mobile Application Penetration Tester (eMAPT) certifications. He is the founder of ECHO, one of the oldest Indonesian IT security communities, and also a founder of IDSECCONF, the biggest annual security conference in Indonesia. He also reviewed Kali Linux Cookbook, by Willie L. Pritchett and David De Smet, Packt Publishing, and Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook, by Justin Hutchens, Packt Publishing.