carolinas20
OSINT_Learning_4ever
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Mods - please edit as needed - I know its long, but this is my purpose and hope I can find some information on how best I can assist in new/recent cases. I work on a team of 4 OSINT researchers and we wanted to check into this site and see where we could offer our skills and tools as we perfect our methodology for working such cases. If you review my email, anyone can see which university I attend and can off up additional information. If you could delete this yellow header if you approve, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, I will see it's been deleted.
Thanks
JD
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Hello all. I'm new to Websleuths but was interested in the site as there is a lot of information concerning known cases, cold cases, old cases and much more. I'm an OSINT researcher which as may know stands for Open Source Intelligence in the cybersecurity world. I am not the typical OSINT researcher as primarily I have been a business professional for 20 years and more. Please feel to review my profile. I believe its set up so all can see.
My main focus right now is developing skills to assists law enforcement and family at their request to employ tools in cyber to find out as much information available in today's digital world to help bring truths to light from the many Open Sources online.
PI's employ such services as well, some fully, some not. I am perfecting my OSINT methodologies, procedures protocols, & reports per know industry expectations and then raising the benchmark.
With a BS in Aviation Management, an MBA, and currently working on a BS in cybersecurity with a focus on data analytics, I'm looking to work on cases, both locally through networking with family law lawyers and other cases that are brought to my attention. Since I do not charge anything for my services but do have to prioritize with work and school, I try to spend as much time as I can and use the cases with my team to create our own custom programs/scripts to scrape the surface, deep and dark web for information about known cases.
A notice: Please don't misunderstand that while media has categorize the deep and dark web, please think of it like this:
Deep Web - Sites google is not able to index (Un-indexed - they're just unknown - like a computer in someone's home connected to the internet and running a web server - and google can't see it because the IP address and port info is not set to defaults and purposely hidden port 80 settings. (Many companies intranets are this way closed networks) - it gets a little more complex after this basic explanation.
Dark Web - anonymized (not completely even with TOR) *.onion sites that can only be read in TOR type browsers where yes, bad things can found but do not make up the majority of information. It's on the dark web where you find more nation-states communications and chat rooms where people share information that can be helpful with the proper deployment of social engineering techniques, tools, and anonymizing skills. This is also where each of our own countries' security agencies also spends much of their time on undercover work and open intelligence gathering.
I will be trying to find a thread that helps me quickly ramp up on how best to use this site. If there is anything I could potentially help with, please let me know. You must be a member to message me.
Again - this is my focus of study and a longtime hobby of mine and I prepare and deliver a professional report of what information is found as I dive into OSINT so I can perfect my process, understanding and provide as much information/truths as possible.
I network with individuals who do this professionally as part of PI companies and cyber patriots who I have come to respect.
Due to the nature of the cases, I must determine who and where this information will be provided. Traditionally, I have provided intelligence to law enforcement authorities where such typical cases contain little information about a subject like maybe a name and last known address.
Please wish me luck as I prepare for next week's Missing Persons CTF III by TraceLabs where we will gather as much intel on assigned cases. For more information on this (seemingly) Bi-Annual competition: Click here - I believe you all would be interested and please understand - that the cyber researchers, while a competition, are more interested in providing information for the cases they are provided. The awards are secondary. That is why I love this CTF event.
Thanks
JD
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Hello all. I'm new to Websleuths but was interested in the site as there is a lot of information concerning known cases, cold cases, old cases and much more. I'm an OSINT researcher which as may know stands for Open Source Intelligence in the cybersecurity world. I am not the typical OSINT researcher as primarily I have been a business professional for 20 years and more. Please feel to review my profile. I believe its set up so all can see.
My main focus right now is developing skills to assists law enforcement and family at their request to employ tools in cyber to find out as much information available in today's digital world to help bring truths to light from the many Open Sources online.
PI's employ such services as well, some fully, some not. I am perfecting my OSINT methodologies, procedures protocols, & reports per know industry expectations and then raising the benchmark.
With a BS in Aviation Management, an MBA, and currently working on a BS in cybersecurity with a focus on data analytics, I'm looking to work on cases, both locally through networking with family law lawyers and other cases that are brought to my attention. Since I do not charge anything for my services but do have to prioritize with work and school, I try to spend as much time as I can and use the cases with my team to create our own custom programs/scripts to scrape the surface, deep and dark web for information about known cases.
A notice: Please don't misunderstand that while media has categorize the deep and dark web, please think of it like this:
Deep Web - Sites google is not able to index (Un-indexed - they're just unknown - like a computer in someone's home connected to the internet and running a web server - and google can't see it because the IP address and port info is not set to defaults and purposely hidden port 80 settings. (Many companies intranets are this way closed networks) - it gets a little more complex after this basic explanation.
Dark Web - anonymized (not completely even with TOR) *.onion sites that can only be read in TOR type browsers where yes, bad things can found but do not make up the majority of information. It's on the dark web where you find more nation-states communications and chat rooms where people share information that can be helpful with the proper deployment of social engineering techniques, tools, and anonymizing skills. This is also where each of our own countries' security agencies also spends much of their time on undercover work and open intelligence gathering.
I will be trying to find a thread that helps me quickly ramp up on how best to use this site. If there is anything I could potentially help with, please let me know. You must be a member to message me.
Again - this is my focus of study and a longtime hobby of mine and I prepare and deliver a professional report of what information is found as I dive into OSINT so I can perfect my process, understanding and provide as much information/truths as possible.
I network with individuals who do this professionally as part of PI companies and cyber patriots who I have come to respect.
Due to the nature of the cases, I must determine who and where this information will be provided. Traditionally, I have provided intelligence to law enforcement authorities where such typical cases contain little information about a subject like maybe a name and last known address.
Please wish me luck as I prepare for next week's Missing Persons CTF III by TraceLabs where we will gather as much intel on assigned cases. For more information on this (seemingly) Bi-Annual competition: Click here - I believe you all would be interested and please understand - that the cyber researchers, while a competition, are more interested in providing information for the cases they are provided. The awards are secondary. That is why I love this CTF event.
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JD
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