WEBVTT 00:00.050 --> 00:02.380 Over practicing Osint. 00:02.420 --> 00:06.950 Now, periodically I get questions about where can you practice osint. 00:06.950 --> 00:07.820 How do you practice? 00:07.850 --> 00:14.830 Osint And the standard answer was, Well, you could do an investigation on yourself, friends or family. 00:14.840 --> 00:17.150 And while that's still true, you absolutely can. 00:17.150 --> 00:22.520 And the nice thing about that is it's easier for you to verify the information whether it's true or 00:22.520 --> 00:28.040 false, because technically you should know your target when you're doing osint if it's on yourself, 00:28.040 --> 00:32.090 a family member or a friend. 00:32.360 --> 00:38.660 However, another great resource for doing Osint investigations and practicing your own skills is trace 00:38.660 --> 00:41.750 labs and you can find them over at Trace Labs. 00:42.110 --> 00:42.800 Org. 00:43.870 --> 00:46.840 Now Trace Labs, if you're not familiar with them, they're a crowd. 00:46.930 --> 00:50.200 Crowd sourced, open source intelligence for missing people. 00:50.470 --> 00:58.090 Essentially, they reach out to the hacking community and community for help in, well, finding people 00:58.090 --> 00:59.110 that are missing. 00:59.110 --> 01:01.450 And these could be adults or these could be children. 01:01.450 --> 01:03.820 The situation may vary. 01:03.850 --> 01:04.990 They could be runaways. 01:04.990 --> 01:08.950 They could be potentially kidnapped, whatnot. 01:09.750 --> 01:11.370 And the way it works is. 01:12.230 --> 01:19.370 They'll crowdsource this stuff where the police are looking for the public's help in finding these individuals 01:19.370 --> 01:26.000 and they will gather some of the information and they'll ask the community for help. 01:26.000 --> 01:27.320 Now, this works in two ways. 01:27.320 --> 01:30.380 Either there's a ongoing missing people. 01:31.130 --> 01:32.060 Uh, investigations. 01:32.060 --> 01:40.280 And they're also hosts now a monthly CTF where they'll have eight, I believe, eight individuals that 01:40.370 --> 01:44.120 you go out look for these ctfs do cost, they do cost $20. 01:44.120 --> 01:47.900 And you can do it through Eventbrite, but it's absolutely for a worthy cause. 01:47.900 --> 01:51.560 So again, you're helping the police look for missing people. 01:52.150 --> 01:57.040 So if you're doing the CTF, you can join a team, you can create your own team. 01:57.280 --> 02:02.350 They'll give you eight individuals that they need help looking for and they'll give you certain flags 02:02.350 --> 02:05.230 that you can go through and do these investigations. 02:05.260 --> 02:12.040 Now, the great thing is, in addition to a absolutely amazing community and helping people, you get 02:12.040 --> 02:13.450 to practice your own skills. 02:13.450 --> 02:19.420 And the nice thing is that they will kind of give you guidance in what you're should be looking for 02:19.420 --> 02:26.170 and they'll give you real time feedback and information that you're finding in terms of they'll vet 02:26.170 --> 02:26.860 the information. 02:26.860 --> 02:27.280 They'll. 02:27.310 --> 02:31.360 They'll have you vet the information that you're that you're presenting. 02:32.180 --> 02:39.380 And all in all, it's a really good way both again, to practice your own skills and also do something 02:39.380 --> 02:42.650 good for the community in helping find these people. 02:42.680 --> 02:50.300 Now, if you're going to do this, which I think is a great, great thing to do, you do want to be 02:50.300 --> 02:51.180 very mindful. 02:51.250 --> 02:58.190 You absolutely want to pay very close attention to the rules and you want to follow those rules to a 02:58.190 --> 03:05.570 T so you can't forget you're dealing with missing people and the rules are in place for a reason. 03:05.570 --> 03:12.710 It's both for your protection, their protection, and also, again, you're dealing with people that 03:12.710 --> 03:13.130 are missing. 03:13.130 --> 03:14.060 You're dealing. 03:15.200 --> 03:21.020 Potentially with grieving families and friends, and you really don't want want to be disruptive. 03:21.350 --> 03:25.340 So again, there the rules are pretty easy to follow there. 03:25.370 --> 03:27.290 They make a lot of sense, but. 03:28.030 --> 03:32.740 Again, this is a good resource for practicing your skills and you can find them over at Trace Lab. 03:32.920 --> 03:33.280 Org. 03:33.280 --> 03:36.040 And there's also a lot of resources here. 03:36.040 --> 03:40.320 If you click on the resource tab, you can learn about their framework. 03:40.330 --> 03:44.440 They have a podcast search party ctfs. 03:44.440 --> 03:47.170 That's what I was talking about earlier, where you could. 03:48.310 --> 03:51.010 Join a CTF to find missing people. 03:51.010 --> 03:56.390 And they also have a trace lab OS and VM, which I've been using recently, and I like it a lot. 03:56.410 --> 04:02.610 I didn't integrate it into this this course at this time, but again, it's definitely worth checking 04:02.620 --> 04:07.820 out, especially if you're familiar with Kali Linux, which they base this VM off of. 04:07.840 --> 04:14.290 So again, encourage you to check out https colon forward slash forward slash w.w.w. 04:14.320 --> 04:15.790 Trace labs.org. 04:15.790 --> 04:20.320 And again, it's a great place to practice your skills and do some real good. 04:20.350 --> 04:21.220 Thanks for watching. 04:21.220 --> 04:22.120 I'll see you in the next video.