LinkedIn OSINT for a Quick Background Check: A Guide for HR

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Most organisations run background checks before someone joins. But the standard checks - employment verification, criminal records — often miss what’s hiding in plain sight on LinkedIn. Open source intelligence (OSINT) techniques, applied to a public professional profile, can surface inconsistencies, red flags, and gaps that formal checks don’t catch.

This guide is for HR professionals and hiring managers who want to use LinkedIn more systematically as part of due diligence — without crossing into surveillance.

Operational Security 101

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Last week, Andrew Tate got into a Twitter fight with Greta Thunberg, both taking jibes at each other. It got ugly — and the next day, Romanian authorities used a pizza box visible in his response video to confirm his location and arrest him.

You genuinely could not write a better operational security case study.

Operational security, or OPSEC, started as a military concept — protecting information about your own operations from an adversary who might use it against you. In the digital age, it applies to everyone: activists, executives, journalists, and apparently influencers who pick fights on Twitter.

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LinkedIn OSINT for a Quick Background Check: A Guide for HR

Operational Security 101