6 Gathering OSINT About People

While previous chapters focused on gathering OSINT about businesses, this chapter focuses on gathering OSINT about people by using a range of tools. You’ll learn how to target a person by hunting for information such as their likes, dislikes, social connections, and password reset questions. We’ll also continue to use our target as leverage against a business by gathering OSINT from pictures that they’ve taken while at their workplace, resumes, complaints or grievances, their bragging about work, and travel, to name just a few.

Using OSINT Tools for Analyzing Email Addresses

Often, when you begin an attack, ...

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