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Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering
The document discusses open source intelligence (OSINT), focusing on methods for gathering, monitoring, and removing information related to companies from various online sources. It highlights the importance of understanding metadata, monitoring social media, and formulating an internet posting policy for employees. The document offers practical tools and strategies, as well as recommendations for effective monitoring and handling of online presence.
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- 1. Enterprise Open Source IntelligenceGathering Tom Eston
- 2. Open source intelligence(OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management...
- 3. Open source intelligence(OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management... ...involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence. - wikipedia
- 4. What do theInternets say?
- 5. 18% had adata loss event via blog or message board... - Proofpoint, Inc. 2009 Survey
- 6. 18% had adata loss event via blog or message board... 11% in 2008 - Proofpoint, Inc. 2009 Survey
- 7. 17% experienced data loss related tosocial networks... - Proofpoint, Inc. 2009 Survey
- 8. 17% experienced data loss related tosocial networks... 12 % in 2008 - Proofpoint, Inc. 2009 Survey
- 9. “A brand isthe personification of a product, service, or even entire company.” - Robert Blanchard, former P&G executive
- 10. 5 things youwill learn • What is out there on your company? • Metadata • Removal of Internet postings, metadata • Setting up a simple (cheap) monitoring program • Building a Internet Posting Policy
- 11. What gets posted? •Customer and Employee Complaints • Exposure of Confidential Information • Security Vulnerabilities
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- 18. Exposure of Confidential Information
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- 23. Things you wouldn't expect...
- 25. Where does this informationget posted? ...and how to find it!
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- 27. 300 Million Users 110Million Users 40 Million Users Grew 752% in 2008
- 28. Finding Information on Social Networks • Socnet Search Engines • Maltego (Twitter/Facebook) • RSS feeds/Google Hacks • Google Alerts + Google Reader = WIN • Manual Searching • Facebook status updates
- 29. Socnet Search Engines • Wink, Spock, Twoogle, Knowem, WhosTalkin (there are many more, see my blog post) • Twitter Search • Social Bookmark Sites • Delicious, StumbleUpon • Don’t forget about photos/video! • Flickr Photo Search • YouTube and Vimeo Video Search
- 30. Maltego + Mesh= WIN *Screen shot from the “Maltego and Twitter!” post on paterva.com
- 31. Searching Facebook • Good: Maltego Facebook Transform (violates TOS) ** No longer working! :-( • Better: Login and use the search! FB doesn’t make status updates public...yet. • Best: site:facebook.com inurl:group (bofa | "bank of america") = Groups • inurl:pages = Facebook Pages • allinurl: people "John Doe" site:facebook.com = Public Profiles • Yahoo! Pipe for Facebook Groups: Facebook Discussion Board RSS Feed • Create Google Alert(s)
- 32. Searching LinkedIn • Similarto Facebook • Google dorks • site:linkedin.com inurl:pub (bofa | "bank of america") = Public Profiles • inurl:updates = Profile Updates • inurl:companies = Company Profiles
- 33. Blogs and News •Blogpulse, Technoratti, IceRocket • Social Mention (Search Engine for blogs, comments) • Google/Yahoo News
- 34. Document Repositories • DocStoc •Scribd • SlideShare • PDF Search Engine
- 35. Message Boards • InternetForums (yes, even 4chan) • Craigslist • Full Disclosure Mailing List (vulnerabilities) • Google Groups/Yahoo Groups
- 36. All your metadataare belong to us...
- 37. What is Metadata? •Metadata = Data that describes Data • Catalog, index files, documents and more • Often overlooked by: • Document/File Creators • Your Company
- 38. Why do wecare? • Can expose potential vulnerable software/ hardware in use! (client side attack) • OS and version numbers • Location information (GPS from smartphones) • User names, naming schemes, file paths
- 39. Where do youfind it? • Microsoft Office Documents • PDF • JPEG’s (photos) • Other file types
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- 41. How do youfind it? • Google • Document Repositories • Wget to download photos (many other tools) • Your Company Website
- 42. Tools to analyze Metadata • EXIFtool (cmd line or GUI) • Maltego • Metagoofil • Metadata Extraction Tool • FOCA
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- 46. Removing Internet Postings andMetadata
- 47. Removing posts from the Internet • Hard, but not impossible. Search Engine Cache FTL • Submit request to Search Engines to remove (there are multiple) • Legal team involvement, especially w/ socnets
- 48. Metadata Removal Techniques • MS Office Documents • Office 2002/03: CMD Line app “Remove Hidden Data” (Offrhd.exe) • Office 2007: Document Inspector • EXIFtool (photos) • Can be scripted to auto remove
- 49. Metadata Removal Continued... • PDFs: File -> Document Properties • EXIFtool • Many third-party tools! ($)
- 50. Setting up amonitoring program
- 51. What do youwant to monitor? • Impossible to monitor everything! • Pick the most popular social networks, news sites, blogs, forums... • Monitoring should be defined with your PR/Marketing groups!
- 52. Free Tools • Yahoo!Pipes (mashups) • RSS Feeds/RSS Reader Google Reader FTW • Maltego (community version) Good for defining relationships, not automated • Maltego for specific searching when you need “more details”
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- 55. What works best? • Assign someone! (someone in infosec, social media skill sets) • Create RSS Feeds from identified sites • Utilize Yahoo! Pipes, create RSS from pipes • Monitor w/Google Reader • Sites you can’t monitor automatically...determine manual methods. Build this into your Incident Response Procedures!
- 56. Building a Internet Posting Policy
- 57. Define your Social Media Strategy • Partner with Marketing/Public Relations/HR • What is acceptable for employees to post? • At work/off work • Employees have mobile devices, home computers!
- 58. Define what gets monitored? • Difficult or impossible to monitor everything • Determine with your partners what should be monitored • Careful with policy conflicts!
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- 61. Communicate to your employees! How can you enforce a policy if employees don’t know about it?
- 62. Where to learnmore? • Great paper on Metadata (SANS Reading Room): “Document Metadata, the Silent Killer” - Larry Pesce • Maltego Tutorials: Chris Gates, EthicalHacker.net • My blog: spylogic.net
- 63. OSINT 3 PartSeries • All the details from this presentation! • Part 1 - Social Networks http://bit.ly/osint1 • Part 2 - Blogs, Message Boards, Metadata http://bit.ly/osint2 • Part 3 - Monitoring, Social Media Policies http://bit.ly/osint3
Editor's Notes
- #7 How many of us as security professionals think of reputational issues in regards to the company brand?