VIScon Workshop: OSINT Workshop
Event start time 12.10.2024 14:00
Event end time 12.10.2024 17:00
This event is only available for VIScon Symposium or Hackathon participants, as well as Helpers! Please sign up for one of these events first!
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tips and tricks criminals don't want you to know. Experience hands-on open source tactics and techniques to gain more information than the one visible on the surface. Train your mindset and dive with us in the ocean of online information.
For this, it doesn't matter if you are already a Sherlock Holmes or a Watson - Everybody is invited to participate!
The workshop is a fast-paced, hands-on training. The course focuses on understanding OSINT methodologies and includes practical exercises based on real-life scenarios.
Through this course, you will be able to:
- deepen and broaden knowledge of OSINT tools and methodologies
- expand the field of research using OSINT tools
- improve the effectiveness, efficiency and success of OSINT investigations
- search for information on the Internet in a targeted and effective manner, including hard-to-find or previously deleted information
- verify the plausibility of sources by means of online information
- perform a series of advanced investigations using an individual's social media presence
- locate the place and identify the date when certain images were taken
- analyze company data using information found online
Additional slots might become available later on. Please use the waiting list!
The VSETH General Privacy Policy applies to this event.
Details and Prerequisites
Workshops may require items VIScon cannot provide (e.g., a Laptop) which you have to bring with you or to set up something (e.g., install software) that would otherwise take up a significant chunk of the workshop. You may also need knowledge in certain fields (e.g., how to program in a specific language). All of this information can be found in the following paragraphs, so you can decide whether you want/can participate in this workshop, or not.
What you have to bring to the workshop:
- a laptop
What you have to do before the workshop:
Nothing.
Knowledge requirements(/recommendations) for this workshop:
Nothing.
FAQ
Why can't I sign up for this workshop?
If you signed up for the main event after the early access deadline (8:00pm, 19th of September), you can sign up from the 22nd of September. But don't worry, we will send you a reminder when the sign up opens. Early access is our way to thank early supporters!
Event organisers
Main event organiser Niklas Tischler