Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations & Human Intelligence
Unlock the secrets of effective digital investigations with our proven and acclaimed Fundamentals of Cyber Investigation and Human Intelligence course. This course has delivered exceptional value to practitioners around the world through in-house training programs, open classes, and most recently at the prestigious BlackHat Asia 2023, Black Hat Asia 2024 and Black Hat Europe 2024 cybersecurity conferences in Singapore and London. Gain practical knowledge and acquire skills that will help gather in-depth information on a subject, master target profiling, and learn valuable social engineering and information elicitation techniques.
With this unique course, you will learn to gather in-depth information about your target from publicly available resources. You will also learn to profile a target and then utilize this information to engage with them online, and elicit information that will facilitate your investigation. We will be teaching these skills through the following intelligence disciplines:
- Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
- Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT)
- Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
Christina Lekati
Christina is a psychologist and a social engineer working in cyber security. She participates in a variety of projects, where she practices or trains teams on social engineering for defensive or offensive security.
Samuel Lolagar
He is a former detective and now working in the field of cyber security. Samuel Lolagar is teaching courses on OSINT, SOCMINT and privacy. He is also known as OSINTgeek.
Curriculum
- Introduction to OSINT (4:58)
- The Intelligence Cycle (9:29)
- OSINT Guiding Principles & Use Cases (9:56)
- Basics of Information Gathering (2:53)
- Google (14:52)
- Bing & Yandex
- Exercise: Hunt for Secrets
- Email Investigations (9:38)
- Username Search Essentials & Tools (7:13)
- Website Investigations (1:00)
- CentralOps.net (1:42)
- ViewDNS.info (2:28)
- Identify the technologies behind any website (0:40)
- Technology Lookup with BuiltWith (1:10)
- urlscan.io - The sandbox for the web (6:04)
- Website Content Analysis (1:28)
- Website Fingerprinting (0:57)
- Quiz: OSINT
- Introduction to SOCMINT (17:26)
- Fundamental SOCMINT Techniques (27:36)
- Account Profile; Content Analysis Techniques (22:56)
- Identifying Relationships & Connecting Accounts (6:35)
- Cold Reading: Observations VS Inferences (14:40)
- From SOCMINT to HUMINT (16:50)
- Active Sock Puppet Accounts (15:36)
- Quiz: SOCMINT