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The Open Source Intelligence Guide: A Professional Investigator’s Manual for Finding Anyone or Anything
The OSINT 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 how to go beyond search engines and discover data that will not appear in Google search results.
The internet is full of information that you can only find if you know where to look. This kind of information will not appear in your Google search results or in the Dark Web, because it is hidden in what is known as the “Deep Web.”
For example, you can search a phone number in the Deep Web and discover everywhere the user gas ever lived and who lived with them. Or you can use an email address to find private accounts (on websites for dating, extramarital affairs, social media, gaming, etc.)
This book will not only show you OSINT resources, but will also walk you through how yo use them to run investigations
The OSINT Guide is separated into the following sections
Part 1: uncovering information linked to phone numbers and email addresses as well as researching cryptocurrencies and the dark web.
Part 2: using public records to track people down or run background checks by looking up court records, political donations, traffic tickets, property records, and tax liens.
Part 3: genealogy records to identify someone’s living or past family network and of course family history.
Part 4: website research on the owner, the website’s safety, and other sorts of data that can be gleaned from a website.
Part 5: malicious actors, security, and privacy.
Part 6: company research, this is an extensive section on all sorts of data and investigations on companies ranging from small businesses to large conglomerates. The sections explains how to identify companies’ activities, fraud, employees, assets, as well as links to local politicians, governments or non-profits.
Part 7: social media and how to use resources to find and analyze data to determine someone’s closest associates, type of device they use, hidden details about the user, and what other accounts they have.
About the As a security consultant and corporate intelligence specialist, Tom Caliendo has over 25 years of experience working with OSINT. Tom is a licensed private investigator and certified for cryptocurrency and cybersecurity investigations. Tom is also a published writer and co-founder of the private research firm Brockett Consulting LLC.
Tom lives with his family in Chicago where he is an avid gardener, general lover of bees, and an expert at chasing his after his 3 year old son.
This is the only OSINT (open source intelligence) book that focuses on how to go beyond search engines and discover data that will not appear in Google search results.
The internet is full of information that you can only find if you know where to look. This kind of information will not appear in your Google search results or in the Dark Web, because it is hidden in what is known as the “Deep Web.”
For example, you can search a phone number in the Deep Web and discover everywhere the user gas ever lived and who lived with them. Or you can use an email address to find private accounts (on websites for dating, extramarital affairs, social media, gaming, etc.)
This book will not only show you OSINT resources, but will also walk you through how yo use them to run investigations
The OSINT Guide is separated into the following sections
Part 1: uncovering information linked to phone numbers and email addresses as well as researching cryptocurrencies and the dark web.
Part 2: using public records to track people down or run background checks by looking up court records, political donations, traffic tickets, property records, and tax liens.
Part 3: genealogy records to identify someone’s living or past family network and of course family history.
Part 4: website research on the owner, the website’s safety, and other sorts of data that can be gleaned from a website.
Part 5: malicious actors, security, and privacy.
Part 6: company research, this is an extensive section on all sorts of data and investigations on companies ranging from small businesses to large conglomerates. The sections explains how to identify companies’ activities, fraud, employees, assets, as well as links to local politicians, governments or non-profits.
Part 7: social media and how to use resources to find and analyze data to determine someone’s closest associates, type of device they use, hidden details about the user, and what other accounts they have.
About the As a security consultant and corporate intelligence specialist, Tom Caliendo has over 25 years of experience working with OSINT. Tom is a licensed private investigator and certified for cryptocurrency and cybersecurity investigations. Tom is also a published writer and co-founder of the private research firm Brockett Consulting LLC.
Tom lives with his family in Chicago where he is an avid gardener, general lover of bees, and an expert at chasing his after his 3 year old son.
334 pages, Hardcover
Published July 2, 2023
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