
Explore methods to locate corporate email addresses using online services, targeted searches, testing techniques, mailing lists, and LinkedIn exports, while noting privacy risks and potential misuse.
Google dorking techniques to target file types, sites, exact phrases, public directory listings, and exposed administration panels and FTP servers for OSINT research.
Kali Linux bundles security research and hacking tools by default, enabling open source intelligence tasks with terminal and graphical tools.
Discover where to obtain Kali Linux for open-source intelligence and how to run it: bare metal, virtualization with virtual machines, arm/mobile builds, cloud, and USB lifeboats.
Learn to run Kali Linux from a live USB by buying a Kali Linux flash drive or creating your own with an ISO and Balena Etcher.
Explore how to run Kali Linux as a virtual machine with VirtualBox, including creating a VM, allocating memory, attaching a Linux ISO, and using Kali’s security tools.
Learn to map a target's structure by using Go Buster on Kali Linux to discover hidden directories and subdomains with word lists, revealing a company’s pages, forums, and services.
Explore how open-source intelligence tools like shodan reveal public information about companies, including headquarters, country activity, domains, software, and online visitors, with examples from apple, udemy, and ubuntu.
Discover how to find a website's IP address with ping, use IP to location tools to verify its location and provider, and check online status and blacklist status.
Use reverse image search to uncover information about a person by uploading or dragging and dropping an image into Google Images or tools like tiny icon.
Learn to extract image metadata with the exif tool to reveal data such as GPS coordinates and megapixels.
Explore reverse image search tools across engines to determine where an image was taken, noting that Google may not yield results, so use Yandex and tiny dot com.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the art of researching via publicly available sources and then creating a report, which can be used for any number of applications. This can include, but is not limited to: Law Enforcement, Government and Military, Corporate Security or any other field that utilizes information. The information can come from anywhere on the internet. OSINT data can then be used to give support and credence to an investigation.
It is important to note that all data in OSINT is collected and/or saved, therefore leaving a digital footprint. The report created may have information, which addresses personal details of an individual or business, who may not have consented to such publication. Those researching for personal reasons; law enforcement, private investigators, etc., must be mindful of this before utilizing this method of information research/gathering.
In this course you will learn many OSINT techniques like collecting email addresses of companies, finding geo location information in images, searching by image, google dorking and much more. While some of the skills are more technical, you don't need to be a computer expert or advanced hacker to do this course. This is a beginners course that doesn't have any prior requirements. If you want to learn about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), this course is for you.