Now let's talk about LinkedIn Osint.
LinkedIn has over 900 million active users monthly, and people can post, share photos, videos, and
add links.
Now, what's special about LinkedIn is that people try to keep their profiles updated.
It's not like Facebook because if a company wants to hire a certain person, then they will always have
a look at their current position, their past experiences, etc. and this means that you'll be able
to find where the person works, where they live, and in which university they have studied.
So the first thing that I would like to show you is search filters that will help you to find the person
quicker and will help you to narrow down your search.
Similar to Facebook, you just have to enter the person's name and then specify all the information
that you have about the person to narrow down your search.
For example, if you have searched for John Smith, then you'll get hundreds or maybe thousands of search
results.
But once you specify the country, city, the university, etc., you'll be able to refine your search
and only find the person that you are looking for.
So let me show you an example here.
I'm going to search for Rishi Kabra and since we have searched for Rishi Kabra multiple times, that's
why it's getting displayed at the top.
But what I would like to show you is this tab.
For example, when you go to people, then you'll only see people that have this name and we can see
that we have 30 search results.
Now, since we know that Rishi Kabra lives in Kolkata, I'm going to specify the location to be India
first and then I'm going to say show results.
And now I have 28 search results.
So I've only executed two results.
I can go to the current company and say contact out which is already displayed in here.
and we can see that we only have one search result.
Now, if you would like to specify more information, then you can go to all filters and then scroll
down and specify for example the school, university, industry, language, etc. these are all information
that could be used to narrow down your search.
You can also go to posts.
For example, if you only want to see posts of people with this name or related to this search term,
and we can see that this person has mentioned the name Rishi, but it's not Rishi Kapoor, it's Rishi.
Something else.
We can scroll down and find more information.
So if I search for Rishi, we can see that there's another person called Rishi Chhabra that has posted
here as well.
We can also specify when the posts were posted and the content and select a certain member.
For example, we can search for Rishi Chhabra and click on this profile and see if there is any public
comments or posts.
And as you can see here we have a comment, etc. after finding the target profile, the next thing you
want to do is to analyze their profile and see what information are important or relevant to you.
So in this example here I have a screenshot of my profile.
You can see that I teach people Osint.
You can see my website and how many followers I have and the country that I am in.
We can also click on contact info to find any additional information, for example an email address
or date of birth, etc..
Now let me go to Rishi Kabra profile because we already have gathered this before.
As you can see here, it's already in our notes and we can see that he is a Product Manager at Contact
Out.
We can see where he studied and where he's working, and we can hover over this website and see in the
bottom left that this is contact out website.
We can see the number of followers and the mutual connection between me and him, and if I clicked on
contact info then I'll be able to find some additional information.
He only added his birthday without the year, but we have already identified in which year he was born
when we performed Facebook Osint.
You can also read the biography about him to gather more information.
We can see his activities and comments.
So if I clicked on comment, I can see all the comments that he has made.
As you can see here, I can go to reactions and find to what he has reacted and I always like to go
through the posts, comments and reaction because this will tell me if the person is actually using
their accounts.
So if I see that he supported this article or this post two days ago, then this will tell me that he's
active on his LinkedIn account and he's liking supporting posts, etc..
One of the coolest things that I really find about LinkedIn is that LinkedIn allows us to download the
person's profile very, very easily.
So you don't have to open an Excel spreadsheet, copy data, paste data, clean the data that you have
copied, etc. you can basically click on more and then save to PDF to download the person's resume or
profile.
So let's come back to Rishi Kabra account again and I'm going to download his profile.
I'm going to click on more and then save to PDF.
So even if he changed his information, I still have an offline copy of the information that were posted
or made public on his LinkedIn account.
So let's go to our notes and upload this.
I'm going to say add a page inside and then I'm going to say LinkedIn, and then I will go to this page
and upload my file by adding a slash and then PDF.
And then I'm going to click on this and choose the file that I have downloaded, which is in my downloads.
And now I have an offline copy of his LinkedIn profile.
Now we don't see the picture, but this is not a problem.
We can copy it so we can open the picture, right click save the image as and then save it on your desktop.
And then we can upload it to our notes by adding slash and then image.
And here I will click on upload file and then go to my desktop.
And here is his image.
I'm going to say open.
And I can make it smaller like this.
And then move it to the right side of the page.