Videos and Presentations
Nico Denkens - Using OSINT to gather and analyze online hate content and groups
Within the structure of the intelligence cycle, Nico talks about how to use OSINT techniques to gather and analyze online hate content and hate groups. In the last several years, online hate and hate groups are seeing more momentum and online presence than ever before. By using structured methodologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures, it will become much easier to perform a sound analysis on this subject matter. This talk covers the fundamentals needed to understand how to track online hate or hate groups using OSINT.
Steve Adams - Criminal Market OSINT Investigations
Criminals are increasingly exploiting surface web digital marketplaces to facilitate transactions for illicit goods around the world. In this session, Steve demonstrates manual investigation techniques for discovering fraudulent product listings and seller accounts. Learn how to expand your investigation and discover locations, phone numbers, email addresses, and other social media accounts from marketplace listings.
Steven Harris - Using OSINT To Investigate Criminal Websites
Understanding how criminals use the internet to commit fraud and other cyber crimes is an essential skill for investigators, but navigating web infrastructure and making the links between a website and offline entities can be difficult. This talk walks through some real-life examples of techniques for website investigation, with practical tips to help researchers improve their web sleuthing skills.
Nadia Touminen - Thinking Skills for Effective Investigations
The explosion of OSINT onto the modern investigation scene is clearly and inevitably linked to the huge technological advances in recent years. However, this same modern evolution has led to the stealthy yet rapid erosion of basic thinking and planning skills. A combination of supreme convenience and information overload, brought about by 24/7 global information access and social media, has left us exhausted and overwhelmed; vulnerable to faulty reasoning, poor decision making, and analysis paralysis.
Cynthia Hetherington - Financial OSINT
Open source intelligence is a well-covered area of expertise that involves the collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources. Building on these skills, our instructor will focus on financial intelligence research practices. Finding data related to transactional information, cryptocurrency markets, and any opportunity to track down fraudulent operations through the surface to the dark web will be discussed.
Chris Poulter - Demystifying the Dark Web
This presentation will explore dark webs across three primary areas of concern. Firstly, we will develop a deeper understanding of the information systems that contribute to the network & look at techniques to better leverage this information for intelligence gains. Secondly, we will unpack how dark web networks can be observed at a macro & non-technical level to inform shifts in geopolitical & social dynamics within contested or oppressive environments, which can be critical to understanding emerging anonymous communication pathways in those environments. Finally, we will explore how to find & investigate dark web illicit services by learning about information slippage across surface, deep & dark web to peel back the layers of illegal eco-system & develop some simple approaches to automating the collection & monitoring of dark nets to support OSINT requirements.