CSE Faculty delivers a Lecture at the AICTE Sponsored Online STTP
28-Nov-2020
Dr. Ananth Prabhu G., Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering delivers a 2 Hour Lecture on "Finding Anyone using OSINT" at the AICTE sponsored Online Short Term Training Program (STTP). The STTP was hosted by Gopalan College, Bengaluru.
The first step in a targeted attack – or a penetration test or red team activity – is gathering intelligence on the target. While there are ways and means to do this covertly, intelligence gathering usually starts with scraping information from public sources, collectively known as open source intelligence or OSINT.
There is such a wealth of legally collectible OSINT available now thanks to social media and the prevalence of online activities that this may be all that is required to give an attacker everything they need to successfully profile an organization or individual.
The lecture was followed by an interactive session and was attended by 100+ participants from all over the country.
