Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information Paperback – January 1, 2013

I got this book after hearing the guest on the Social Engineering Podcast Episode 39, Nick Furneaux, speak highly of it. Over all it isn't too bad. The OSINT class I'm in, had a lot of fellow students interested in the book. However I find that it's more a reference book that I jump around in, than a book I'm reading cover to cover.The site listings for different data are great, but even though the book just came out, some of the information does't work because sites changed things.I really like, how Mr. Bazzell mixes in some real world examples of things he's done with some of the techniques. I was also able to find some information, after reading how what sites and how too look things up, that I had been searching for in vain for almost 10 years.I recommend this book as a reference if nothing else.

The content is very well structured and explicit, resources and examples presented provide the reader with comprehensive information on the research papers on the Internet

Mr. Bazzell has done it again...

The book was already known to me and it has met all my expectations. Recommended to anyone who needs open source training.

If your job requires exploiting the freely available data from the internet, you'll want to grab the 3rd (greatly expanded) edition described in detail at [...] and due out shortly. It's full of candid, no punches pulled, explicit detail, including links, examples, and practical methods that give the reader significant new strength in gathering OSINT. I've been doing online investigations for almost 20 years and found techniques I'm certain are not known by many practitioners. There'll be times when the reader wonders, ''hey,can I really do this?" Absolutely, you can. The techniques are clever -- and legal. I had the pleasure of reading Bazzell's 2nd edition, taking his live 2-day seminar in November and completing his online 32+ hour video instruction course (a free sample video can be viewed from several selections that currently include:reversing cell phone numbers to subscriber, Facebook graph searches, exploiting EXIF Metadata from images, and one other). As the author says, this is not a history book on OSINT policy or or debate abut the ethics of online reconnaissance. It's a down and dirty, nitty grittty, how-to-do-it guide. Mike Bazzell is one scary sharp cyber investigator who is doing his police department (Alton, IL) and his FBI Cyber Task Force one mighty fine service.