have you ever wondered how much information you can gather about someone even if their account is set to private open source intelligence is a legit technique used by hackers to gather information about their targets or law enforcement agencies to track down criminals but what exactly is it and how is it done well in order to understand this let me illustrate a simple example so let's say you came across this picture posted by your friend while scrolling on Instagram and for some reason you find yourself wanting to know where they are and where this photo was
taken but the question is how will you do that well your common sense might have indicated that in order to determine the location of this photo we must find where these buildings are situated as they are the only distinctive features in this photo but if we crop the image and perform a reverse image search for them on Google it won't be useful as we'll only be presented with random pictures of Windows across the internet this is particularly because as humans we naturally Overlook the window frames and curtain to focus on the scenery outside however search
engines can't replicate this understanding and this is where oyn tools like cleanup dot pictures come into play using this tool we can remove these window frames from our image and then perform a search for them on Yandex a Russian search engine that has image searching cap capabilities Way Beyond Google's and as you can see the search results now are much better than the previous ones as we found various matches for the buildings that we were looking for now upon going through these sources we came to know that these buildings are situated near the Moscow River
Bridge in Russia but what we've just done is a prime example of what an open source intelligence or oent investigation looks like in this video we'll delve into a specific branch of ENT called social media intelligence so let's get started disclaimer while Gathering publicly available information is legal using the gathered information with ill intent can still result in serious legal consequences I ly discourage the use of information discussed in this video for unethical activities okay so this is the example account that we'll be using in performing our ENT investigations on now the first technique I
want to share with you involves gaining an idea of our subject's activities by searching for all the public posts that they might have commented on or maybe we're tagged in to do this we are going to use Google search with a special search operator called Pyon followed by instagram.com like this and then intext followed by the username of the account we want to search for and upon hitting enter Google will list all the posts that our account might have engaged with with were tag in now while this might not show all the posts or provide
a complete profile of a person's activity it still is a useful technique that you can incorporate into your ENT investigations and can use with any social media platform by simply adjusting the site and username accordingly Additionally you can also use other search engines like Bing to perform these searches as they might bring up some additional posts that Google might not but make sure that when you conduct these searches you're logged into your Instagram account or else they won't work next if the victim has their full name written on their social media profile we can go
ahead and search for every publicly available PDF Excel or Word document hosted online containing that exact name using the file type search operator like this the our search operator used here tells Google to also include Excel or Word documents in its search results and after hitting enter you will see all the documents that may be associated with the provided name this can be very effective if the search results might include court records resumés or other official documents that can provide a lot of insight into a person's life and may also provide you with email addresses
phone numbers or a list of family members that you can use to perform further investigations on moreover if the subject has mentioned things like their country City or university/ workplace on their social media profiles we can also search the internet for their name along with these keywords and find additional information such as links to their University profiles or employment details this might also reveal multiple social media profiles providing a great way to learn more about our subject's interests is a programmer might have an account on GitHub while an artist could be found on platforms like
deviantART or pixart to broaden your search you can also utilize the Twitter's advanced search engine to search for your Target's name along with these keywords and check if there are any tweets related to them another effective oin Tech involves checking if the subject has uploaded their own face is their profile picture as we can use a tool called face check.id to search for their presence on the internet using facial recognition for free what I particularly like about this tool is that it also includes social media Platforms in its searches and is quite proficient at facial
recognition however if you can't find anything on this website another option is to use a paid tool called Pim eyes that has a slightly good facial recognition software but doesn't include any social media accounts in its searches you can also search for the username of your subject across multiple social media platforms and find their presence online additionally if you found the email address of your subject through Google Dorking or any other means you can also run that email on websites like epos or havein pon.com and discover social media accounts that may be associated with that
email finally you can also visit a website called Intel techniques.com and find additional ENT tools for multiple social media platforms there anyway guys that wraps up the video as the purpose was just scratching the surface and exploring how much information can be gathered about someone even if their account is set to private now if you're interested in learning more and Diving deep into the topic I will put links to some of the best ENT resources in the description below for you to check out if you have any questions make sure to ask them in the
comment section down below and I will see you in the next one
