/en/tags/recon/Recent content in Recon on Suspicious BytesHugoen-USSun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/posts/osint-for-beginners/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000/en/posts/osint-for-beginners/<p>Open-source intelligence is the practice of collecting information from publicly available sources — and a surprising amount of an organisation&rsquo;s footprint is sitting in plain sight.</p> <h2 id="where-to-start">Where to start</h2> <p>Begin with the passive sources that never touch the target directly:</p> <ul> <li>Public DNS and WHOIS records</li> <li>Certificate transparency logs</li> <li>Cached pages and archives</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>The goal of OSINT is not to break in. It is to understand a footprint using only what someone has already published.</p>