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Course Overview

Open-source Intelligence (OSINT) is an essential capability in modern cybersecurity, investigations, threat intelligence, and digital research. It enables professionals to collect, validate, analyze, and correlate publicly available information from websites, social media, search engines, images, business records, and other online sources. Effective OSINT helps investigators develop evidence-based insights while maintaining appropriate legal, ethical, and operational boundaries. This course begins with the foundations of OSINT, including data collection, investigation methodology, bias awareness, reporting, virtualization, Linux, and operational preparation. It then progresses through sock puppets, secure data handling, advanced search techniques, reverse email and phone searches, employee and people searches, website intelligence, the Dark Web and Tor, browser plugins, social media investigations, OSINT frameworks, Maltego, metadata and geolocation tools, and practical investigation challenges. The course also covers reporting and brings the techniques together through hands-on email and OSINT investigations. By completing this course, you will gain practical OSINT investigation skills for collecting, validating, analyzing, documenting, and reporting publicly available intelligence responsibly.

What You Will Learn

  • Apply OSINT methods to collect and validate public information.
  • Use advanced search and secure investigation techniques.
  • Investigate people, emails, websites, and businesses.
  • Analyze social media, Dark Web, metadata, and geolocation data.
  • Use OSINT tools to correlate findings and report intelligence.

Program Curriculum

  • New OSINT Intro CSI
  • Disclaimer
  • What Is OSINT Re-recorded
  • Mental Prep 2
  • Data Collection
  • OSINT Steps 2025
  • What Will You Need
  • Crossing the Line 2026
  • Ask
  • Bias 2025
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Investigation Examples and Reports
  • Report Writing Presentations 2025
  • OSINT Report and Client Intake V2
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • What Is Virtualization
  • VirtualBox Install 2026
  • CSI Linux Overview 2025
  • Basic Linux Commands

  • Sock Puppets 2025
  • More Sock Puppets 2026
  • My Sudo
  • Temp Mail
  • Text Free and FB
  • CSI Sock Puppets
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Handling Data 2026
  • CherryTree 2025
  • Obsidian V2
  • Keeping Your Data Safe
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Google Dorks Advanced 2025
  • Maps and Satellite 2026
  • Reverse Images
  • Google Images Exact Match
  • Google Alerts
  • Other Reverse Image Tools
  • Geolocation
  • Viz Greynoise
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Reverse Email
  • Phone OSINT Chart
  • Reverse Phone Lookup
  • Sensity
  • Attestiv
  • Minerva
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Business Searches
  • Chapter 8 Quiz

  • Blackbook
  • USA Public Data Search
  • Webmii
  • Resume Lookup
  • Family Tree
  • Home Property
  • Hospitals
  • Instant Checkmate
  • Unmask Gmail Users
  • Chapter 9 Quiz

  • SpiderFoot
  • Httrack and Wget CSI Linux
  • Metagoofil
  • Webpage Cache
  • Saving to the Internet Archive
  • Archive.ph
  • meta.narko.io
  • DotDB
  • Chapter 10 Quiz

  • The Darkweb
  • Tor
  • VPN or Not 2 VPN with Tor
  • Ahmia.fi 2026
  • CSI Tor Gateway
  • Notepad++ and Data Breaches
  • Chapter 11 Quiz

  • SurfSafe
  • Image Capturing
  • User Agent Switcher
  • Website Downloader
  • Start Me
  • Chapter 12 Quiz

  • Facebook Sock Puppet Account
  • Twitter X Mind Map 2025
  • Twitter Search Tool 2025
  • Twitter X Advanced Search 2026
  • Facebook ID 2025
  • Facebook Download 2025
  • Watch YouTube No Sign in 2026
  • Maigret 2025
  • Profil3r
  • Bluesky 2026
  • Internet Bluesky
  • OSoMeNet
  • Chapter 13 Quiz

  • OSINT Framework 2026
  • Chapter 14 Quiz

  • Maltego
  • OSIRT
  • Exif Tools
  • Canary Tokens
  • Bitcoin Sextortion Scam
  • Global Resources 2025
  • Australia 2026
  • Geo-recon 2026
  • OSINT Online Dating
  • Chapter 15 Quiz

  • Chapter 16: Bringing It All Together
  • Email OSINT Investigation
  • New OSINT Challenge
  • New OSINT Challenge V3 Solution
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Instructor

Jeff Minakata

Jeff Minakata has worked in the IT industry for over 22 years. He holds various cybersecurity certifications, networking certifications, and engineering certifications such as C|OSINT Certified, trained in CEH v8, CEH v9, CEH v11, CISP, Metasploit certified, Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE), MCSI OSINT Practitioner, and CWA certified. He is an Online Instructor for OSINT, ethical hacking, and network security. He has contracted courses for EC-Council, Udemy, and has written articles for Hackin9 and eForensics magazine. Jeff currently works on the computer networking side and teaches ethical hacking, OSINT, and cybersecurity online. He is passionate about helping people understand OSINT, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity.

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