As per Wiki - Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources. In the intelligence community (IC), the term "open" refers to overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources); it is not related to open-source software or public intelligence. There are lots of other ways to collect information from Public Source which may not provided in this document, This is just an Introductory Document for whose who are beginners and students.

1. WWW.CYBEROCTET.com
By: Falgun Rathod 2015
Leading Intelligence Method
Open Source Intelligence

2. Little bit about me : Falgun Rathod
• Managing Director at Cyber Octet Pvt. Ltd (Company is Listed in Top 25 Promising Cyber Security
Companies of India by Silicon India Magazine )
• 6+ Years of Experience in Information Security & Cyber Crime Investigation
• Consultant for State & National Security
• Listed in Top Ten Cyber Cops of India (IndiaToday Magazine)
• Listed in Top Ten Certified Hackers of India (Silicon India)
• Speaker at ClubHack 2012
• Member of Open Web Application Security Project
• Invited Member of International Cyber Threat Task Force
• Member of Cyber Security Forum Initiative
• Member of Data Security Council of India - Ahmedabad Chapter
• First Indian to be Featured on Cover Page of PenTest Magazine
• Invited Speaker in 4 Universities & 40+ Colleges for Talk on Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security.
• Solved 55+ Cases of Internet Threats, Cyber Frauds Social Networking and Cybercrimes.
A Geek, and Entrepreneur

3. Intelligence
Definition
• DATA: raw report, image or broadcast
• INFORMATION: collated data of generic interest and usually widely
disseminated
• INTELLIGENCE: concisely tailored answer reflecting a deliberate process of
discovery, discrimination, distillation, and delivery of data precisely suited to
need

4. OSINT
Definition and Importance
Open-source intelligence (OSINT)
is intelligence collected from publicly available
sources.

5. OSINT Timeline
Transition
1455 to 1898
1898 to 1994
1994 to 2008
Printer/
Publisher
(Reformation)
Multimedia
Radio/Cinema
TV/Databases
(Mass one way
Communications)
Intranets
Online/Web
E-open source
intelligence

6. Types of Intelligence
Yes We USE it
• HUMINT – Human Intelligence  Sleeper Cells
• SIGINT - Signal Intelligence  Traffic Analysis, TEMPEST and ECHELON
• MSINT – Measurement and Signature Intelligence  Radar, Nuclear and
Earthquake
• Technical Intelligence – Intelligence about Weapons used by Forces

7. Methods of OSINT
Into Deep Search
• Web Directories – WWW Library and Internet Public Library
• Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, MSN etc. etc.
• Important Engine – Wolframe Alpha
• Serial Search Engines – Soolve , myallsearch
• Hardware Search Engine – Shodan
• Scientific Search Engine – Google Scholar, Academia
• Encyclopedia – Wikipedia
• Book Stores – Amazon, Google Books etc.
• Translations – Google, Bing and many more
• Aeronautical – flightradar24.com and many more
• Blogs – Blogspot, Wordpress and many more

8. Continue
• Company Information – MCA.gov.in
• Images – Google Images, Flickr, PICASA and much important – Tineye
• Internet Tools – Archive.org, Whois, VisualRoute, ip2location.com etc etc
• Thousand of Journals and Print Media Sources
• Maps – Google Maps, Google Earth, Wikimap
• People Finders – pipl, spokeo etc etc, Public Records - Intellius
• Social Networking Websites – Facebook, Twitter, G Plus, LinkedIn etc etc
• Matrimonial Websites
• Job Portals

9. More Reference
• www.onstrat.com/osint/
• http://www.subliminalhacking.net/2012/12/27/osint-tools-
recommendations-list/

10. Thanking You
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