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The Open Source Intelligence Guide
The OSINT Guide is a How-To manual for using hidden Internet resources for investigating people, companies, social media, and anything else. The third edition is updated for 2024.
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 to use them to run investigations
The OSINT Guide is will teach
Uncovering information linked to phone numbers and email addresses as well as researching cryptocurrencies and the dark web.
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.
Genealogy records to identify someone’s living or past family network and of course family history.
Website research on the owner, the website’s safety, and other sorts of data that can be gleaned from a website.
Company research to identify companies’ activities, fraud, employees, assets, as well as links to local politicians, governments or non-profits.
About the Caliendo is a security consultant and freelance writer with over 20 years of investigative experience working in corporate intelligence, due diligence, and cybersecurity.
As a writer he covers information accessibility in modern society and is a regular contributor at nonprofit news sources like Cyber Protection Magazine, Secjuice, Feedly, Osint-Fr, and Osint Editor.
Tom is licensed and experienced in a variety of disparate fields related to OSINT, including cryptocurrency investigation, archival research, cybersecurity, private investigation, and genealogy.
Tom lives in New Jersey where he is a gardener, general lover of bees, and an expert at chasing his three year old.
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 to use them to run investigations
The OSINT Guide is will teach
Uncovering information linked to phone numbers and email addresses as well as researching cryptocurrencies and the dark web.
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.
Genealogy records to identify someone’s living or past family network and of course family history.
Website research on the owner, the website’s safety, and other sorts of data that can be gleaned from a website.
Company research to identify companies’ activities, fraud, employees, assets, as well as links to local politicians, governments or non-profits.
About the Caliendo is a security consultant and freelance writer with over 20 years of investigative experience working in corporate intelligence, due diligence, and cybersecurity.
As a writer he covers information accessibility in modern society and is a regular contributor at nonprofit news sources like Cyber Protection Magazine, Secjuice, Feedly, Osint-Fr, and Osint Editor.
Tom is licensed and experienced in a variety of disparate fields related to OSINT, including cryptocurrency investigation, archival research, cybersecurity, private investigation, and genealogy.
Tom lives in New Jersey where he is a gardener, general lover of bees, and an expert at chasing his three year old.
328 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 18, 2022
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August 8, 2023
I really enjoyed this book and found it more useful than any other on this topic (and i have read a lot of osint books). It focuses on a topic that no other book addresses (and it also hits pretty much every topic or purpose for an osint reader, listing a lot of great websites and tools, explaining osint investigation techniques, social media, photo verification and investgation, etc. etc.). But it focuses on something that no other book does, how to find osint that no one else knows how to find.
Most OSINT people or books focuse entirely on search engines and scrolling social media, assuming that is all that is available on the internet.
I too once assumed that a search engine can find all information on the Internet (except of course the dark net). Which is also a bit problematic at work because my standardly Internet-literate coworkers are equally capable of using search engines and social media (even if they have read an osint book). Plus, most of the websites presented in other osint books are basically just different means of searching the Internet for the same things that I could have found with a search engine. Sorry that was so much negativity, I am trying to give you a basis for comparison.
I loved THIS book because it showed me that there are SO MANY sources of information on the Internet that most people dont know about, and more importantly it means i can do a much much better job of researching a topic than my coworkers. Plus, all of the book really talks about things that are relevant for everyone (not just people with a narrow purpose that doesnt apply to the rest of us). I thought i really knew open source and the Internet in generally before I read this book, but now i have discovered more skills and tricks than before. I think it kinda changes my outlook. also, when me and a coworker are tasked with researching the same thing, I can return with so much more and sooooo much better results. now im "the osint expert" at work, and im not bragging, i just used what i read in the book.
Most OSINT people or books focuse entirely on search engines and scrolling social media, assuming that is all that is available on the internet.
I too once assumed that a search engine can find all information on the Internet (except of course the dark net). Which is also a bit problematic at work because my standardly Internet-literate coworkers are equally capable of using search engines and social media (even if they have read an osint book). Plus, most of the websites presented in other osint books are basically just different means of searching the Internet for the same things that I could have found with a search engine. Sorry that was so much negativity, I am trying to give you a basis for comparison.
I loved THIS book because it showed me that there are SO MANY sources of information on the Internet that most people dont know about, and more importantly it means i can do a much much better job of researching a topic than my coworkers. Plus, all of the book really talks about things that are relevant for everyone (not just people with a narrow purpose that doesnt apply to the rest of us). I thought i really knew open source and the Internet in generally before I read this book, but now i have discovered more skills and tricks than before. I think it kinda changes my outlook. also, when me and a coworker are tasked with researching the same thing, I can return with so much more and sooooo much better results. now im "the osint expert" at work, and im not bragging, i just used what i read in the book.
February 29, 2024
loved it!
March 1, 2024
I liked this book because it really showed fascinating kinds of data on anything I was trying to look into. Also I have no techy background so I was happy it gave good and easy instructions
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