With few exceptions companies have been collecting data about you and your families for decades. Whether it is \just" your name, address, and phone numbers or how often you visit a certain location and with whom, the information that circulates the public internet about us and our families grows every day. With some simple, free tools and easy to understand techniques, anyone can gain access to this data and examine their digital footprint.
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Join Micah Hoffman, author of the new SEC487: Open-Source Intelligence Gathering and Analysis (https://www.sans.org/course/open-source-intelligence-gathering) course in the first of a three part series of webcasts on the practical applications of using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in our daily lives.