Automating Open Source Intelligence

Dr. Robert Layton is a Research Fellow at the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) at Federation University Australia. Dr Layton’s research focuses on attribution technologies on the internet, including automating open source intelligence (OSINT) and attack attribution. Dr Layton’s research has led to improvements in authorship analysis methods for unstructured text, providing indirect methods of linking profiles on social media. Paul A. Watters is a Professor of Information Technology at Massey University. He was previously Associate Professor of Information Security at the University of Ballarat, and co-founded the Cybercrime Research Laboratory at Macquarie University. His research interests are human factors in security and open source intelligence, and in measuring the risks associated with cybercrime, especially to children and young people. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and his work has been cited 1,249 times He has worked closely with government and industry on many projects, including Westpac, IBM, and the Australian Federal Police (AFP).

Ch 1. Introduction to OSINT

Ch 2. Advances in Automated OSINT

Ch 3. Named Entity Resolution in Social Media

Ch 4. Relative Cyberattack Attribution

Ch 5. Evidence Accumulation Strategies for OSINT

Ch 6. Analyzing Social Media Campaigns for Group Size Estimation

Ch 7. Crawling the Dark Web

Ch 8. Case Study: The Digital Underground

Ch 9. Graph Creation and Analysis for Linking Actors

Ch 10. Case Study Predicting Crime with OSINT

Ch 11. Ethical Considerations w/Public Data

Ch 12: Limitations of automating OSINT

Ch 13. Geospatial Reasoning of Open Data

Ch 14: Future Trends