Code 10 – OSINT Course – Techniques to support due diligence activities

Structure

The course consists of a half-day, three-hour classroom session. The course includes significant hands-on learning with the practical analysis of real-world cases, proposed by the students themselves, which are then analyzed and discussed in plenary sessions or through exercises led by the instructor. Each half-day of training provides two training credits, necessary for renewing the certifications issued by the school (AMLACERT, KYCACERT, RCACERT, WSACERT) and the CAMS certification.

Program

INTRODUCTION TO OSINT
Introduction to OSINT
Definition of OSINT
What can you do with OSINT?
A real-world example: Koobface

METHODS AND WAYS OF DOING OSINT
Information classification
Types of OSINT
The OSINT Matrix
The methodology purpose and profiling
how to get started
what to analyze
what is needed

SEARCH FOR INFORMATION
The difficulties of doing OSINT
Possible sources
Search engines
Google dorks
Google Dorks Examples
Bing Dorks
Exercise

SOCIAL NETWORKS
Social networks
Facebook
perform searches on Facebook
Search via box and URL
Search using online tools

TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM
Twitter
The internal search tool
online search tool
one million tweet map
Social media coordinator
Search box and online tools
Using Dorks

METADATA
What is metadata?
Where is the metadata located?
Analysis Tools (1)
Analysis Tools (2)
EXIF Data Analysis
Toll Exif

IMAGE ANALYSIS
Image Analysis
Logical analysis
Weather analysis
Reverse Image Search
ELA Analysis
Forensic image analysis

DEEP WEB AND DARK WEB
Definition of Deep Web
Examples
When it's not the Deep Web
Dark Web
Examples
Conducting OSINT on the Dark Web
Real case

VALIDATION OF SOURCES
Validation of sources
What is it
Origin and prejudices
Critical factors
Cognitive Biases
Critical thinking (1)
Critical thinking (2)

VALIDATION METHODOLOGY
The fundamental questions (1)
The fundamental questions (2)
The fundamental questions (3)
The fundamental questions (4)
The fundamental questions (5)
Summary
Source rating scale
Information Rating Scale

EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES
Exif and geolocation
Logical analysis of an image (1)
Validate information (1)
Validate information (2)
Logical analysis of an image (2)
Example of Fake News
Practical exercise