Human Element Security Flashcards
What are the two primary sources of information
Human intelligence
Open source intelligence
What is human intelligence?
HUMINT
Data gathered by talking to people
What is open source intelligence?
OSINT
Information collected from publicly available records–eg, job postings
What are some common sources of open source intelligence?
Resumes and job postings
Social media
Public records
Google Hacking
File Metadata
What are two tools used to read file metadata?
EnCase
ExifTool (for image and video metadata)
What are two tools used to gather information from OSINT?
Shodan–search engine looks for info on internet-connected devices
Maltego–relationships between points of data (transforms)