OSN (Open Source Intelligence) Tutorial

Introduction

• OSN (Open Source Intelligence): Utilizes publicly available information to solve mysteries and conduct investigations without needing special access or hacking.
• Target Audience: Cybersecurity beginners, generalists, investigators, marketers, and curious individuals.
• Objective: Understanding what OSN is and its significance.

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Understanding OSN

• Definition: Collection and analysis of data from public sources to produce actionable intelligence.
• Examples of Use:
  • Security analysts checking if employee credentials are leaked
  • Mapping an attacker's digital footprint using public domains like websites, social media, blogs, and public records.

Importance of OSN

1. Threat Intelligence:

   • Monitors public data for early threat signs
   • Scans forums and dark web for leaks
   • Monitors social media for attacker exploits

2. Background Checks:

   • Used by businesses, law enforcement, HR teams to verify backgrounds
   • Analyzes social media activity, public records, employment history

3. Market Research:

   • Understand competitors, customer behavior, industry trends
   • Analyzes social media and reviews, scrapes e-commerce pricing

4. Locating Missing Persons:

   • Law enforcement and volunteers use OSN to aid missing persons' location
   • Monitors social media, public records, uses geolocation data

Popular OSN Tools

1. Search Engines:

   • Use special search commands and advanced operators for efficient results
   • Example: site:example.com for site-specific results

2. Social Media Monitoring:

   • Tools like Hootsuite, Sprout Social automate tracking of posts and trends

3. Web Scraping Tools:

   • Beautiful Soup for HTML/XML parsing
   • Scrapy for building web crawlers
   • Maltego for data mining and visualization

4. OSN Framework:

   • Directory of OSN tools organized by categories
   • Categories include email lookup, social media tools, public records

5. Data Analysis Tools:

   • Excel, Tableau, Python, R for organizing and analyzing data

Conclusion

• Summary: OSN tools are essential for threat intelligence, background checks, market research, and more.
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