Open source intelligence methods and tools : a practical guide to online intelligence

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Apply Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques to gather information from publicly available online sources, enhancing intelligence analysis across various scenarios, including financial, crime, and terrorism investigations, as well as business competition analysis. This resource improves your ability to acquire information from both the regular Internet and the hidden web, which includes the deep and dark web. It features numerous OSINT resources beneficial for intelligence agencies and enterprises to monitor global trends, identify risks, and gather competitor intelligence for better decision-making. You'll learn techniques and tools employed by hackers and penetration testers to gather intelligence on specific targets and understand how OSINT can be utilized in social engineering attacks. The practical approach lists hundreds of OSINT resources for collecting intelligence from public sources while also addressing how to anonymize your digital identity to conduct searches discreetly. Key learning outcomes include identifying intelligence needs, leveraging a wide range of tools for data collection and analysis, using OSINT to protect sensitive data, gathering corporate intelligence to predict market trends, and conducting advanced searches on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, as well as understanding the layers of the Internet, including the invisible web.