GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPEN-SOURCE CYBERINTELLIGENCE AS A METHOD OF OBTAINING FORENSICALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION
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Apr 22, 2022
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of open-source cyberintelligence as a method of obtaining criminally relevant information to perform tasks aimed at the detection, disclosure and investigation of criminal offences, the establishment of the location of wanted persons. When writing the article was used dialectical-materialistic method of scientific knowledge, formal-logical, historical-legal, comparative-legal, systematic method, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. The author analyses scientists’ views on the definition of open source intelligence (OSINT), characterizes different types of information, proposes a classification of sources of open information placed in cyberspace. The main categories of criminally relevant information that can be obtained as a result of intelligence in cyberspace are specified. The following stages of cyberintelligence based on open source were identified and investigated: defining the purpose and objectives of cyberintelligence; planning; search, collection and processing of information obtained from open sources; its analysis and evaluation; drawing of conclusions and preparation of results.
How to Cite
Kozytska, O. (2022). GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OPEN-SOURCE CYBERINTELLIGENCE AS A METHOD OF OBTAINING FORENSICALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION. Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences, (3), 91-98. https://doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2021-3-10
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Keywords
information, cyber-intelligence, OSINT, forensically relevant information, open source information, information retrieval, criminal investigation
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