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Dale Meredith
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Dale Meredith

Dale Meredith is an EC-Council-certified ethical hacker/instructor and a Microsoft-certified trainer. Dale has over 10 years of senior IT management experience and was a CTO for an ISP. Dale's skill as an IT trainer is in clarifying tough concepts and ensuring students understand the theory. Dale's teaching style is memorable and entertaining. His expertise has led to many opportunities, including teaching teams in Fortune 500 firms, universities globally, the Department of Homeland Security, and many US military branches. Along with authoring video courses, consulting, and classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences around the world, helping teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and breach-aware.
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Additional open source OSINT tools

OSINT tools span a broad spectrum, offering capabilities that range from domain information extraction to social media monitoring. These tools, accessible to anyone, can often be modified to suit specific needs due to their open source nature. Next is a selection of standout open source OSINT tools, their features, and their utilization within Kali Linux.

SpiderFoot

SpiderFoot is an incredibly powerful OSINT automation tool that integrates various data sources to gather and centralize information about a specific target. This can be an IP address, domain name, email address, or even a username. With more than 200 modules, SpiderFoot consolidates a broad swath of digital intelligence, making it easier for investigators to analyze and interpret.

To install SpiderFoot, you would open a Terminal and type the following:

sudo apt install spiderfoot

SpiderFoot can be started by executing sf.py from its directory, but ensure Python 3 is being...

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Dale Meredith

Dale Meredith is an EC-Council-certified ethical hacker/instructor and a Microsoft-certified trainer. Dale has over 10 years of senior IT management experience and was a CTO for an ISP. Dale's skill as an IT trainer is in clarifying tough concepts and ensuring students understand the theory. Dale's teaching style is memorable and entertaining. His expertise has led to many opportunities, including teaching teams in Fortune 500 firms, universities globally, the Department of Homeland Security, and many US military branches. Along with authoring video courses, consulting, and classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences around the world, helping teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and breach-aware.
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