How not to get lost in the digital world: OSINT

Since OSINT is now a necessity for everyone, this course is intended for absolutely everyone. Everyone deals with information today, and at the same time, each of us is responsible for our own information security. Graduates of the course will be able to establish their own basic information security and learn how to search for and, especially, verify information.

• Understanding the potential of OSINT in today's digital world
• Increasing your own information security
• Art of gathering data from publicly available sources
• Legal techniques and tricks for obtaining hidden digital traces
• Verification of facts and information
• Gaining confidence in decision-making

This is a basic OSINT course for the public, where only basic computer skills and the use of a web browser for internet browsing are required.

Introduction

• Understanding Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
• Other intelligence disciplines
• Legal knowledge for legal OSINT investigations
• Understanding the necessity of information verification and setting the right mindset

Methodology

• Understanding the necessity of methodology in OSINT
• Basic methodological approaches
• Basic methodological tools

Search Engines

• Understanding the potential of search engines and their characteristics
• Knowing the advantages and disadvantages of individual search engines
• Google hacking

OSINT Verification in Various Usecases

1. Verification of information from the media
2. Verification of new job applicants
3. Verification of companies
4. Verification of a new person in your life
5. Verification of the credibility of offered services or products
6. Email verification
7. Phone number verification
8. Detection of fictitious profiles
9. Detection of fake images/photographs/documents
10. Detection of fake videos
11. Detection of fraudulent websites
12. Localization based on photographs/videos for the purpose of verification of facts

Next courses

OSINT investigation [GOC60]