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Network OSINT

Since we have previously defined OSINT as the process of collecting information on a particular object or entity to facilitate the purpose of reconnaissance. Network OSINT would be the process of collecting information on a particular network entity or group of network entities. Anyone who knows about information security lore can tell you network information reconnaissance was inherited from the days of phone phreaking. When a phreak would search through local phone books take notice of the sequences of telephone numbers and record which numbers in the sequence were not listed in the local phonebook. The phreak would then take his compiled list of numbers that were not listed in the phonebook, and would painstakingly dial every one of them to see which were in service. Those that were in service, but not listed, were referred to as “unlisted numbers”. Thus is where the terminology was born.

There have always been a plethora of software available to perform network OSINT, this is because network osint actually performs a duty other than collecting information on a particular target. Network administrators use it all the time to troubleshoot bottlenecks in the network or troubleshoot problematic DNS resolution. Probably the most famous of these OSINT softwares is NMAP, which anyone who does anything with networking is familiar with.

OSINT TOOLS