Let's start learning social media intelligence.
People post all kinds of information on their social media profiles, and this information could be
utilized by Osint investigators, hackers or journalists to find either more information about a person
or a company.
So I would like to start this lecture by showing you how you can gather information from Facebook profiles.
Because Facebook has almost 3 billion active users and almost everyone has a Facebook account.
The reason why I like Facebook to gather information is because Facebook has a huge user base, and
you can see the person's profile information, for example, their education, work, other social media
profiles, etc. you can also see someone's relationships and connections.
Of course, if they were not set to be private and people can't post diverse content on Facebook, for
example, they can post, they can upload images, videos, etc. and sometimes some content will be
geotagged.
For example, you might see that they have posted from a certain restaurant at a certain time.
And lastly, if the person profile was public, then you can read all of their posts and see their friends
and see what they like and what they dislike, etc..
The problem with Facebook is that Facebook continuously patches Osint methods that are used to gather
information about Facebook profiles.
So the methods that I'm going to teach you in this section might change in the future, and I will try
my best to keep this section and all other sections up to date.
And I don't think that this is a problem at all, because whenever Facebook patch a certain method,
the Osint community will always try to find an alternative method to achieve the same result.
Let's continue our Osint Investigation with Rishi Khabra.
We have already got his Facebook profile and it's in our notes.
We have the URL and we can visit the URL immediately and start reading what he's posting, what information
he has on his profile, etc. but before we do this, I would like to show you the filter feature by
Facebook because I think it's very important when it comes to searching for people.
So after you create your Sockpuppet account and you log in to Facebook, you want to go to the search
bar and then search for the name of the person that you are looking for.
In my case, I'm looking for Rishi Kabra and what I'm going to focus on today is this filter option.
So if I clicked on people, this will only show me people with the name Rishi Kabra and I can scroll
down and see that there are many people with this name and similar names.
What I can do to filter the search results out is to specify the city.
We already know that he is from Kolkata because we saw this on his LinkedIn profile.
So I'm going to say Kolkata and then select the city.
And now we have less search results.
And since we already know that he is from the SRM University, we can see that this is his profile and
this is the profile picture that we saw previously.
We can also see that he is a product manager at glint, which is what we also saw on his LinkedIn account.
So if we scroll down, we can see that he was a product manager at Clinty.
So we can always specify the city education, work or maybe friend to narrow down our search.
Because if you are looking for someone called John Smith, then it's almost impossible to find this
person because there are many people with this name.
And that's why it's very important to gather initial information about the person, and then use this
information to narrow down your search and find their profiles.
So let's view the profile.
And the first thing that I always look for is the URL.
And we can see that the URL is facebook.com.
And then slash and then Rishi Raj Kabra.
And it's not Rishi Kabra as we see here.
This is very important to know because when you create your Facebook account for the first time and
set a display name, this display name will be used to generate his username.
And I believe that his initial or first username or display name that he used is Rishiraj Kabra and
not Rishi Kabra, and then he later changed his display name to Rishi Kabra.
So we can scroll down to find more information.
We can see that his product manager at Clint and a formal full stack developer, which is similar to
what we have seen here on his LinkedIn profile And he was a system engineer.
So you can see this as well.
We can also see where he studied.
You can see that he studied at SRM University in Ramapuram, I believe.
And this university was also in Chennai.
So if we search for this university in Google Maps, we can see that this is the university and it is
in the city of Chennai.
We can also see that he is from Kolkata and we can see his Instagram account and LinkedIn account.
Snapchat account, SoundCloud, GitHub, Twitch and Twitter.
So let me get the missing information.
I think we already have his Instagram account and we don't have his Snapchat, so I'm going to add it
in here.
This is his Snapchat username and we already have his SoundCloud account and GitHub account and I think
Twitter account as well.
No, we do not have it or we do actually have it.
We have this account.
But here we can see that we have a different username.
So he has two Twitter accounts, one with Rishi Kapoor 132 and one with RK 132.
We can also see that we have a Twitch account.
So I'm going to copy it and paste it, and you can see the number of accounts that we found so far.
And in a future lecture you will see how you can utilize these usernames to find other accounts.
You also want to go to all of these links.
So you want to go to about and maybe find certain information that you didn't find before.
So here we can see one of his family members, which is his mom.
We can see the live events.
We can go to friends or photos.
Now when you visit someone's profile, it's very important to look at all the posts and pictures that
they posted because these are very valuable information.
Now, I have seen all of these pictures and there are two pictures that I would like to show you that
captured my attention.
The first picture is him with his family with a description, birthday dinner with family and we can
see that it was on 1st of December.
So we know that this is his family and this was a birthday dinner.
And this is what we saw on his LinkedIn account.
When we click on contact info, we can see that his birthday is on 1st of December, but we do not know
in which year.
So the second picture that I would like to show you is this one.
And he is saying that he is his 2020 birthday and it was posted on 2nd of December 2017.
So we can open the calculator and say 2017 -2020.
And now that we know that his date of birth is 1st of December 1995.
So I'm going to add this in my notes.
After you look at all the pictures and post that he made, you can go to videos and watch if there's
a certain video.
And you can also see the places that he visited, and you can see that there are many.
And we can see the music, movies, TV shows and his likes.
And this is why I like Facebook, because we can see all types of information.
So in this lecture you have learned how you can search for someone on Facebook and use the filters to
narrow down your search and find your target.
After you find your target, you want to check the URL and see if the name in the URL matches the display
name, and then you can read other information posted on the person's profile.
For example, any post, videos or pictures because these will all tell us a lot of information.
And don't forget to check the friends and the about section, because these are also very important.