New (2023) 10th Edition contains many updated techniques, scripts, and tools!

It is time to look at OSINT in a different way. For many years, and within previous editions of this book, we have relied on external resources to supply our search tools, virtual environments, and investigation techniques. We have seen this protocol fail us when services shut down, websites disappear, and custom resources are dismantled due to outside pressures. This book aims to correct our dilemma. We will take control of our investigative resources and become self-reliant. There will be no more need for online search tools; we will make and host our own locally. We will no longer seek pre-built virtual machines; we will create and configure our own. This book puts the power back in your hands. The new OSINT professional must be self-sustaining and possess their own tools and resources. You will become a more proficient subject matter expert who will be armed with the knowledge and readiness to articulate the sources of your findings. This new edition contains hundreds of pages which have been updated to keep your OSINT investigative methods fresh, and completely rebuilt digital assets which complement the teachings. Brand-new search methods for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and others ensure you have the latest techniques within your online investigation arsenal. This edition presents six new chapters unavailable within previous versions discussing Broadcast Streams, Application Programming Interfaces, and an entire new section containing chapters about Data Leaks, Data Breaches, Stealer Logs, and Ransomware. An entire section is devoted to Methodology, Workflow, Documentation, and Ethics which provides a clear game plan for your next active investig

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OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) is a field that is becoming increasingly important. More and more information is made available online. Many people, companies or organizations are unaware of how much more they are giving away than they actually wanted.

True to the motto: "Knowledge is power", you will learn to follow the digital footprints and find digital traces. You will be amazed at the information you can extract from it!

Get to know the various tools and techniques to gain information with OSINT. That being said, I'll show you some approaches to do much more than just extract the obvious information from your finds.

Join me on this exciting journey on the digital information highway

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  • #1,772 in Internet & Telecommunications

Algorithms for Automating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) presents information on the gathering of information and extraction of actionable intelligence from openly available sources, including news broadcasts, public repositories, and more recently, social media. As OSINT has applications in crime fighting, state-based intelligence, and social research, this book provides recent advances in text mining, web crawling, and other algorithms that have led to advances in methods that can largely automate this process.

The book is beneficial to both practitioners and academic researchers, with discussions of the latest advances in applications, a coherent set of methods and processes for automating OSINT, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the key problems identified within each discipline.

Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples, editors Robert Layton, Paul Watters, and a distinguished list of contributors discuss Evidence Accumulation Strategies for OSINT, Named Entity Resolution in Social Media, Analyzing Social Media Campaigns for Group Size Estimation, Surveys and qualitative techniques in OSINT, and Geospatial reasoning of open data.

• Presents a coherent set of methods and processes for automating OSINT
• Focuses on algorithms and applications allowing the practitioner to get up and running quickly
• Includes fully developed case studies on the digital underground and predicting crime through OSINT
• Discusses the ethical considerations when using publicly available online data

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019K7CN26
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Syngress; 1st edition (December 3, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 3, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6734 KB
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Do you enjoy the reconnaissance part of a penetration testing? Want to discover issues on your network, assets or applications proactively? Would you like to learn some new OSINT based recon tools and techniques? Follow the rabbit hole and find exploitable critical vulnerabilities in the Panama Papers law firm and politics both American and international including Trump and the DNC. Analyse network and email configurations for entry points and exploits with FOCA, Maltego, Nmap/ZenMap, and Spiderfoot. Learn how to use advanced searches, alternative search engines that don't respect robots.txt., intel tools, and leak databases. Open source intelligence gathering (OSINT) and web-based reconnaissance is an important part of penetration testing and proactive defense. The more connected we are, the more information is held about everything. Yummy, juicy information for both a penetration tester or a malicious actor. Learning what sources of are available to start your search is an important first step in learning about reconnaissance and how the information could be utilized or resold. Both issues you or your client need to know. All of the tools and techniques in this book can be ninjafied with Python, Ruby or PowerShell. Initially, this book began as a presentation at the Cyber Senate Industrial Control Cybersecurity Nuclear Summit in Warrington, UK 2016. Originally, I intended to use some of the same techniques to target a nuclear power plant or someone in a nuclear regulatory capacity. After submitting my original talk idea. Daesh, otherwise known as ISIS, began publicly threatening the European nuclear industry. Due to the threats, we decided it wasn't in anyone’s best interest to give a how to target nuclear installations and changed the target instead to the law firm behind the Panama Papers fiasco. The project expanded to include additional targets with mostly a political slant. 2016 was a very tumultuous year in politics. Brexit, Trump, and the rise of the interesting politics and coups in Turkey, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Bulgaria and the Philippines. It’s a lot more fun to learn about a topic in an empowering way. Also, only politicians like politicians. They make a fun target. Learning a 

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Learn to gather and analyze publicly available data for your intelligence needs

In Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence, veteran open-source intelligence analyst Rae Baker explains how to use publicly available data to advance your investigative OSINT skills and how your adversaries are most likely to use publicly accessible data against you. The author delivers an authoritative introduction to the tradecraft utilized by open-source intelligence gathering specialists while offering real-life cases that highlight and underline the data collection and analysis processes and strategies you can implement immediately while hunting for open-source info.

In addition to a wide breadth of essential OSINT subjects, you’ll also find detailed discussions on ethics, traditional OSINT topics like subject intelligence, organizational intelligence, image analysis, and more niche topics like maritime and IOT. The book includes:

• Practical tips for new and intermediate analysts looking for concrete intelligence-gathering strategies
• Methods for data analysis and collection relevant to today’s dynamic intelligence environment
• Tools for protecting your own data and information against bad actors and potential adversaries

An essential resource for new intelligence analysts, Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence is also a must-read for early-career and intermediate analysts, as

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4th Edition (2022), 22 chapters, 320,000 words, Over 500 pages

Michael Bazzell has helped hundreds of celebrities, billionaires, and everyday citizens completely disappear from public view. He is now known in Hollywood as the guy that “fixes” things. His previous books about privacy were mostly REACTIVE and he focused on ways to hide information, clean up an online presence, and sanitize public records to avoid unwanted exposure. This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation. It leaves nothing out, and provides explicit details of every step he takes to make someone completely disappear, including document templates and a chronological order of events. The information shared in this volume is based on real experiences with his actual clients, and is unlike any content ever released in his other books.

New (2022) 9th Edition contains many updated techniques, scripts, and tools!

It is time to look at OSINT in a different way. For many years, and within previous editions of this book, we have relied on external resources to supply our search tools, virtual environments, and investigation techniques. We have seen this protocol fail us when services shut down, websites disappear, and custom resources are dismantled due to outside pressures. This book aims to correct our dilemma. We will take control of our investigative resources and become self-reliant. There will be no more need for online search tools; we will make and host our own locally. We will no longer seek pre-built virtual machines; we will create and configure our own. This book puts the power back in your hands. The new OSINT professional must be self-sustaining and possess their own tools and resources. You will become a more proficient subject matter expert who will be armed with the knowledge and readiness to articulate the sources of your findings. This new ninth edition contains hundreds of pages which have been updated to keep your OSINT investigative methods fresh. It includes new online and offline search tools; a new Linux OSINT virtual machine with pre-built scripts; and tutorials to replicate all Linux OSINT tools within Mac and Windows operating systems. Brand-new search methods for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and others ensure you have the latest techniques within your online investigation arsenal. An entire section is devoted to Methodology, Workflow, Documentation, and Ethics which

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 provides a clear game plan for your next active investigation. All digital files are included via download. Today, we start o

Dive into privacy, security, and online anonymity to safeguard your identity

Key Features

• Leverage anonymity to completely disappear from the public view
• Be a ghost on the web, use the web without leaving a trace, and master the art of invisibility
• Become proactive to safeguard your privacy while using the web

Book Description

As the world becomes more connected through the web, new data collection innovations have opened up more ways to compromise privacy. Your actions on the web are being tracked, information is being stored, and your identity could be stolen. However, there are ways to use the web without risking your privacy. This book will take you on a journey to become invisible and anonymous while using the web.

You will start the book by understanding what anonymity is and why it is important. After understanding the objective of cyber anonymity, you will learn to maintain anonymity and perform tasks without disclosing your information. Then, you'll learn how to configure tools and understand the architectural components of cybereconomy. Finally, you will learn to be safe during intentional and unintentional internet access by taking relevant precautions.

By the end of this book, you will be able to work with the internet and internet-connected devices safely by maintaining cyber anonymity.

What you will learn

• Understand privacy concerns in cyberspace
• Discover how attackers compromise privacy
• Learn methods used by attackers to trace individuals and companies
• Grasp the benefits of being anonymous o

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (December 16, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1801810214
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1801810210
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.73 x 9.25 inches
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Get to grips with cyber threat intelligence and data-driven threat hunting while exploring expert tips and techniques

Key Features

• Set up an environment to centralize all data in an Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) server that enables threat hunting
• Carry out atomic hunts to start the threat hunting process and understand the environment
• Perform advanced hunting using MITRE ATT&CK Evals emulations and Mordor datasets

Book Description

Threat hunting (TH) provides cybersecurity analysts and enterprises with the opportunity to proactively defend themselves by getting ahead of threats before they can cause major damage to their business.

This book is not only an introduction for those who don't know much about the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and TH world, but also a guide for those with more advanced knowledge of other cybersecurity fields who are looking to implement a TH program from scratch.

You will start by exploring what threat intelligence is and how it can be used to detect and prevent cyber threats. As you progress, you'll learn how to collect data, along with understanding it by developing data models. The book will also show you how to set up an environment for TH using open s

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Apply Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques, methods, and tools to acquire information from publicly available online sources to support your intelligence analysis. Use the harvested data in different scenarios such as financial, crime, and terrorism investigations as well as performing business competition analysis and acquiring intelligence about individuals and other entities. This book will also improve your skills to acquire information online from both the regular Internet as well as the hidden web through its two sub-layers: the deep web and the dark web.
The author includes many OSINT resources that can be used by intelligence agencies as well as by enterprises to monitor trends on a global level, identify risks, and gather competitor intelligence so more effective decisions can be made. You will discover techniques, methods, and tools that are equally used by hackers and penetration testers to gather intelligence about a specific target online. And you will be aware of how OSINT resources can be used in conducting social engineering attacks. 
Open Source Intelligence Methods and Tools takes a practical approach and lists hundreds of OSINT resources that can be used to gather intelligence from online public sources. The book also covers how to anonymize your digital identity online so you can conduct your searching activities without revealing your identity. 

 

What You’ll Learn

 

 

• Identify intelligence needs and leverage a broad range of tools and sources to improve data collection, analysis, and decision making in your organization
  
• Use OSINT resources to protect individuals and enterprises by discovering data that is online, exposed, and sensitive and hide the data before it is revealed by outside
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (July 1, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 377 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484232127
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484232125
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 0.86 x 10 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #214,318 in Books (S
  attackers

The skills and tools for collecting, verifying and correlating information from different types of systems is an essential skill when tracking down hackers. This book explores Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT) inside out from multiple perspectives, including those of hackers and seasoned intelligence experts. OSINT refers to the techniques and tools required to harvest publicly available data concerning a person or an organization. With several years of experience of tracking hackers with OSINT, the author whips up a classical plot-line involving a hunt for a threat actor. While taking the audience through the thrilling investigative drama, the author immerses the audience with in-depth knowledge of state-of-the-art OSINT tools and techniques. Technical users will want a basic understanding of the Linux command line in order to follow the examples. But a person with no Linux or programming experience can still gain a lot from this book through the commentaries.

This book’s unique digital investigation proposition is a combination of story-telling, tutorials, and case studies. The book explores digital investigation from multiple angles:

• Through the eyes of the author who has several years of experience in the subject.
• Through the mind of the hacker who collects massive amounts of data from multiple online sources to identify targets as well as ways to hit the targets.
• Through the eyes of industry leaders.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083VZTL52
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (January 28, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 28, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 128890 KB
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  • Best Sellers Rank: #613,542 in Kindle Store (See Top 1

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OSINT Tools - A Practical Guide to Collection, Analysis, and Visualization, written by Paul Michel, is a comprehensive guidebook that equips readers with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively leverage open source intelligence (OSINT) tools for information gathering, analysis, and visualization. In today's digital age, where vast amounts of data are available online, OSINT has become an invaluable resource for various fields, including cybersecurity, law enforcement, intelligence, journalism, and corporate investigations. This book serves as an essential resource for professionals and enthusiasts alike who seek to harness the power of OSINT tools in their work.

With his extensive experience in OSINT and passion for the subject matter, Paul Michel provides readers with a step-by-step approach to navigate the ever-expanding landscape of OSINT tools. The book begins by laying a solid foundation, covering the evolution and importance of OSINT, key principles and concepts, and its applications in law enforcement, intelligence agencies, corporate investigations, journalism, and open-source investigations. The author also delves into the ethical considerations surrounding OSINT, highlighting the need for responsible and ethical practices in data collection and analysis.

Throughout the book, Paul Michel introduces readers to a wide array of tools and techniques that enhance OSINT capabilities. Essential hardware requirements, operating systems, virtualization, and software tools are discussed, ensuring readers have a comprehensive understanding of the technical aspects necessary for effective OSINT investigations. The book also explores secure communication and encryption tools, data organization and management, collaboration platforms, automation through scripting and APIs, and the availability of training and certification programs.

The author provides practical insights into web scraping techniques, including HTML parsing, XPath, API integration, and overcoming anti-scraping measures. Readers learn how to extract information from popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as how to monitor online discussions, detect misinformation, and navigate the dark web. The book also delves into advanced search techniques, geolocation analysis, image and video forensics, and data visualization methods.

One of the standout features of this book is its emphasis on ethical considerations. Paul Michel addresses privacy laws, consent, data protection, anonymization techniques, and intellectual property rights, ensuring readers understand the legal and ethical boundaries of OSINT investigations. The book also explores the responsible use of emerging technologies, such as facial recognition, object recognition, and deepfake detection, encouraging readers to approach these tools with a critical and ethical mindset.

OSINT Tools - A Practical Guide to Collection, Analysis, and Visualization is written in a clear and accessible manner, making complex concepts and techniques easily understandable for readers at various skill levels. The book is enriched with real-world case studies, practical examples, and screenshots of tools and platforms, providing readers with a hands-on learning experience.

In summary, OSINT Tools - A Practical Guide to Collection, Analysis, and Visualization is a comprehensive and authoritative resource that equips readers with the knowledge, skills, and ethical framework needed to effectively utilize OSINT tools in their investigations. Whether you are a professional in the field or an enthusiast interested in exploring the world of OSINT, this book is an invaluable companion on your journey to mastering the art of open source int

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The Open Source Intelligence Guide is a How-To manual for using hidden Internet resources for investigating people, companies, social media, and anything else.

This is the only OSINT (open source intelligence) book that focuses on showing the reader how to go beyond search engines and discover data that will not appear in Google search results.

About the Author: As a private investigator and corporate intelligence specialist, Tom Caliendo has over 25 years of experience as an OSINT professional. Tom is a published writer and co-founder of the private research firm Brockett Consulting LLC.

Over 8 years ago, the Red Team Field Manual (RTFM) was born out of operator field notes inspired by years of Red Team missions. While tools and techniques change, operators still constantly find themselves in common operating environments, with time running out. The RTFM has provided a quick reference when there is no time to scour the Internet for that perfect command.

RTFM version 2 has been completely overhauled, with the addition of over 290 new commands and techniques. It has also been thoroughly updated and tested to ensure it works against modern operating systems. Version 2 includes a new Mac OS section and a section outlining tradecraft considerations. Searching has been streamlined through an expanded table of contents and appendix, and readability has been considerably improved through new text formatting. Finally, RTFM v2 will come in multiple formats including paperback, hardback (coming August 2022), Kindle eBook and an all-new wide margin note taking edition.

Master cutting-edge techniques and countermeasures to protect your organization from live hackers. Learn how to harness cyber deception in your operations to gain an edge over the competition.

Key Features

• Gain an advantage against live hackers in a competition or real computing environment
• Understand advanced red team and blue team techniques with code examples
• Learn to battle in short-term memory, whether remaining unseen (red teams) or monitoring an attacker's traffic (blue teams)

Book Description

Little has been written about what to do when live hackers are on your system and running amok. Even experienced hackers tend to choke up when they realize the network defender has caught them and is zoning in on their implants in real time. This book will provide tips and tricks all along the kill chain of an attack, showing where hackers can have the upper hand in a live conflict and how defenders can outsmart them in this adversarial game of computer cat and mouse.

This book contains two subsections in each chapter, specifically focusing on the offensive and defensive teams. It begins by introducing you to adversarial operations and principles of computer conflict where you will explore the core principles of deception, humanity, economy, and more about human-on-human conflicts. Additionally, you will understand everything from planning to setting up infrastructure and tooling that both sides should have in place.

Throughout this book, you will learn how to gain an advantage over opponents by disappearing from what they can detect. You will further understand how to blend in, uncover other actors' motivations and means, and learn to tamper with them to hinder their ability to detect your presence. Finally, you will learn how to gain an advantage through advanced research and thoughtfully concluding an operation.

By the end of this book, you will have achieved a solid understanding of cyberattacks from both an attacker's and a defender's perspective.

What you will learn

• Understand how to implement process injection and how to detect it
• Turn the tables on the offense with active defense
• Disappear on the defender's system, by tampering with defensive sensors
• Upskill in using deception with your backdoors and countermeasures including honeypots
• Kick someone else from a computer you are on and gain the upper hand
• Adopt a language agnostic approach to become familiar with techniques that can be applied to both the red and blue teams
• Prepare yourself for real-time cybersecurity conflict by using some of the best techniques currently in the industry

Who this book is for

Pentesters to red teamers, security operations center analysts to incident responders, attackers, defenders, general hackers, advanced computer users, and security engineers will benefit from this book. Participants in purple teaming or adversarial simulations will also learn a lot from its practical examples of processes for gaining an advantage over the opposing team.

Basic knowledge of Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell

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Meet the world's top ethical hackers and explore the tools of the trade

Hacking the Hacker takes you inside the world of cybersecurity to show you what goes on behind the scenes, and introduces you to the men and women on the front lines of this technological arms race. Twenty-six of the world's top white hat hackers, security researchers, writers, and leaders, describe what they do and why, with each profile preceded by a no-experience-necessary explanation of the relevant technology.  Dorothy Denning discusses advanced persistent threats, Martin Hellman describes how he helped invent public key encryption, Bill Cheswick talks about firewalls, Dr. Charlie Miller talks about hacking cars, and other cybersecurity experts from around the world detail the threats, their defenses, and the tools and techniques they use to thwart the most advanced criminals history has ever seen. Light on jargon and heavy on intrigue, this book is designed to be an introduction to the field; final chapters include a guide for parents of young hackers, as well as the Code of Ethical Hacking to help you start your own journey to the top.

Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly critical at all levels, from retail businesses all the way up to national security. This book drives to the heart of the field, introducing the people and practices that help keep our world secure.

• Go deep into the world of white hat hacking to grasp just how critical cybersecurity is
• Read the stories of some of the world's most renowned computer security experts
• Learn how hackers do what they do—no technical expertise necessary
• Delve into social engineering, cryptography, penetration testing, network attacks, and more

As a field, cybersecurity is large and multi-faceted—yet not historically diverse. With a massive demand for qualified professional that is onl

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y going to grow, opportunities are endless. Hackin