Social Media and People-Search OSINT
Gather intelligence from LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, and people-search sites responsibly.
Social Media as an OSINT Source
Social media platforms are rich sources of intelligence: employees reveal job titles, projects, colleagues, office locations, technology stacks, and organizational structure — often unintentionally. LinkedIn alone can map an entire organization's hierarchy.
LinkedIn Intelligence
LinkedIn reveals:
- Employee names, titles, and departments
- Technology stack (from job postings and skills)
- Organizational structure and reporting chains
- Recent hires (new attack surface)
- Employees who left (potential disgruntled insiders)
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site:linkedin.com "example.com" "security"All lessons in this course
- Google Dorking for Information Gathering
- WHOIS, DNS Enumeration, and Certificates
- Shodan: The Search Engine for Internet Devices
- Social Media and People-Search OSINT