The OSINT Curious Project

Webcast no.10 released on 2019/04/28   Watch on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOzrb__Zt0c In episode 10 of the osintcurious webcast we discuss:   - OSINT tool - https://github.com/lulz3xploit/Little...  - FreshOnions Tor service goes up and down.  - DutchOsintGuy's blog post on OSINT Operational Security  - Ludo Block tweeted about Dustin Miller's outstanding Twitter Machine Learning thread for un-redacting content using Machine Learning.  - Defcon Recon Village CFP is now open for Las Vegas!   - Bellingcat article about Poway shooting and 8chan -  - Email validation web site   - Peabody award for BBCAfrica story on the killings in Cameroon   - Kenn White's tweet about Docker's breach and what is could mean for OSINT researchers    People in this episode:   ▪ Micah Hoffman   ▪ Dutch Osint Guy   ▪ Sector035   Links to what was discussed can be found here: https://osintcurio.us/webcast/ #osintcurious #osint #opsec #pentest   The official webcast of the OSINTCurious (https://osintcurio.us/) community. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

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Join Technisette (@technisette), Inês (@IWN_LX), Nico (@dutch_osintguy), Micah (@WebBreacher) and Steven (@nixintel) on the newest episode as they discuss the skills needed to become an intermediate OSINTer. How do you improve your OSINT skills? How do you find an OSINT job? Will certificates help you in your job search? Lean back and listen to these experts provide valuable tips on how to get to the next level of OSINT. Furthermore, the team takes a look at the possibilities that Shodan offers in OSINT investigations.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Happy New Year! We're back in 2021 with a new format. Today Micah (@WebBreacher), John (@thegumshoo), Steve (@nixintel) and Matthias (@MwOsint) discuss OSINT activities around the recent event at the US Capitol, e.g. how crowd-sourced OSINT can support law enforcement and how content was collected and saved by non-profits before being erased off the internet. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

In this final episode of The OSINT Curious Project webcast/podcast in 2020, we have an interesting panel discussion for you. Micah, Matthias, and Steven discuss some OSINT topics. People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Steven Harris (@nixintel) Links to what we discussed Micah spoke about The OSINT Curious Project and its resources. Page to find the Advisory and Executive Board members: https://osintcurio.us/about-our-project/ Page to find an organized list of our blogs and videos: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources Page to find our sponsors and patrons: https://osintcurio.us/sponsors-and-contributors/ Patreon page to send donations to help us run the project: https://patreon.com/osintcurious Our discussion today, touched upon the following topics: Understanding how tools work (https://medium.com/@micallst/misusing-osint-to-claim-election-fraud-cfb89c858c3a) Tools versus training Creating final intel products Sharing of OSINT techniques Creating a risk profile prior to OSINT investigations Disinformation/Misinformation Our favorite interviewees and blog posts from OSINT Curious’ 2020 Thank you for listening, watching, and reading our content in 2020! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) Links to what we discussed Nico is tracking all black friday / cyber monday related deals for you: https://github.com/Dutchosintguy/Blackfriday-Deals-2020 Interesting Twitter thread on Arabic clothing that might be useful in some OSINT investigations: https://twitter.com/AD_GQ/status/1331092825858076673 Nico’s tip on how to search for Parler content without accessing Parler: https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1330515656916262912 Keyword search is coming to Instagram! More info here: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/17/21570475/instagram-keyword-search-update-hashtag-account?__twitter_impression=true YouTube-DI is back on GitHub: https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/ Practice your verification skills with First Draft News’s new interactive quizzes: https://ftp.firstdraftnews.org/articulate/temp/ovcR/story_html5.html Need some AI generated faces? Check out this massive archive but keep in mind they’re easily recognisable: https://generated.photos/faces Great Twitter thread on scraping Fleets without triggering the ‘read’ notification: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1329935540049817600 Great resource for international geolocation and winning the GeoGuessr.com game: https://geotips.net/ There’s a new OSINT project, called OSINTDojo that you might want to check out: https://www.osintdojo.com/ Wanna view all tweets from one account? Then check out this tool: https://nitter.net/ Protect your identity by creating an AI-generated photo of yourself: https://generated.photos/anonymizer# Self Promotion Ritu will be teaching the SANS SEC487 OSINT course with Micah in December. Look at https://www.sans.org/event/cyber-defense-initiative-2020-live-online/course/open-source-intelligence-gathering for details. Nico will also be on the https://zolder.io/category/zoldersessions/. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Today’s special guest is Samuel Lolagar @osintgeek Samuel’s website: https://osintgeek.de People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@MwOsint) Steven Harris (@nixintel) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Lisette (@technisette) Links to what we discussed Here’s a new VM from FireEye for threat intel/research: https://github.com/fireeye/ThreatPursuit-VM Check out OSINTCombine’s new blog post on dark web OSINT: https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1326329875037216768 If you want to know more about Parler and what info you can find: https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1326973035207921667 Case study of how to verify and geolocate images: https://mxsx.eu/2020/11/13/Wakashio.html How to use ETags (part of the HTTP response) in OSINT investigations: https://medium.com/@catalyst256/osint-etag-youre-it-ecd7e923392c Article about militias, their radio gears and channel frequencies utilised by them: https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/ Tool to collect valuable info from YouTube videos: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/ Lorand’s new blog post explains how to construct powerful search queries: https://www.lorandbodo.com/blog/constructing-searchqueries-osint Curated dark web resources for OSINT by MidaSearch: https://midasearch.org/dark-web/ Thoughts about sockpuppet accounts for OSINT: https://www.aaroncti.com/lets-talk-about-sockpuppet-accounts/ Self Promotion Matthias and Samuel are preparing for the German OSINT conference. More info here: https://gosintcon.de Micah and John are co-chairs of the SANS OSINT Summit, a free 2-day OSINT conference in February 2021 (https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2021/) and are looking for presenters and attendees! DutchOSINTGuy is proud of his SANS SEC537 Practical OSINT Class (https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/practical-osint-analysis-and-automation/). Registration is open for those classes at significant discount. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Today’s special guest Amine (@aityaakub) People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Steven Harris (@nixintel) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Links to what we discussed TOCP Resource List: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources What to do when a Facebook profile is private? https://osintcurio.us/2020/10/19/what-to-do-when-a-facebook-profile-is-private/ 10 Minute Tip on geolocation – part I: https://osintcurio.us/2020/11/01/ten-minute-tip-image-geolocation-part-1/ Bellingcat’s OSINT tools: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyhIDuK9jrPGwYr9DI2UncoqJQ/edit Resources on mis/disinformation: https://mediamanipulation.org Training session on how to verify images/videos by Jane Lytvynenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aMk48O3vpM&feature=youtu.be Geolocating Kim Kardashian: https://vickymochama.medium.com/how-dare-you-kim-kardashians-40th-birthday-an-investigation-766dc879eb23 Guide on how to use Optical Character Recognition: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/24/screentranslator-is-an-open-source-tool-that-can-translate-text-from-images/ Finding connections between entities based on text: https://jantegze.medium.com/how-to-find-out-who-owns-my-data-d0c7984ae20f Investigate international phone numbers: https://www.secjuice.com/phone-numbers-investigation-the-open-source-way/ RIAA GitHub projects for downloading YouTube videos https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-github-projects-used-for-downloading-youtube-videos/ Lorand’s blog on how to search social media: https://www.lorandbodo.com/blog/social-media-search-strategies Christina Letaki & OSINTGeek’s blog on combining intelligence disciplines: https://osintgeek.de/fcihi/blog/index.html and much more! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mw_Osint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Technisette Sector035 Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Links to what we discussed App usage by country: https://www.applyzer.com/?mmenu=worldcharts Top sites worldwide: https://www.alexa.com/topsites OSINT technique to find Start.me page: https://twitter.com/OSINTtechniques/status/1316937466222465024 Download Win7, 8.1 and 10 (90 day trial) VM’s: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ & https://web.archive.org/web/20191226134552/https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ Sinwindie’s attack surface for the dark web: https://twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1315082663384899584 Lifting fingerprints from photos: https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1317544626425913351 Lorand Bodo’s new website & blog: https://lorandbodo.com RSS feeds for Subreddits: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1314548615071834112 Download CONINT presentations here: https://conint.io/2020downloads Understanding time stamps on social media: https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1314007636036259842 Update on WeVerify: https://twitter.com/WeVerify/status/1317548452784578561 Data scraping with Google Sheets: https://tompatrickjarvis.medium.com/data-scraping-with-google-sheets-to-assist-journalism-and-osint-tutorial-4f490d0dd5c4 Blog post on pivoting and researching info: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/16/where-is-leonardos-car-using-osint-to-trace-vehicles/ Retrieve info about Google account &activity: https://tools.epieos.com/google-account.php Keeping grid on Google IDs: https://sector035.nl/articles/keeping-a-grip-on-google-ids and much more! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

This week’s guest is Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia) Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW´s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom. People in this Episode Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy) Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Nixintel (@nixintel) Sector035 (@sector035) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Links to what we discussed OSINTCurious blog post by Technisette: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/28/when-there-is-no-google-earth-or-street-view-what-can-you-do/ Blog by Matthias Wilson: SOCMINT on foreign platforms: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/04/social-media-around-the-world/ Updated browser extension by OSINTSupport: https://osint.support/chrome-extensions/2019/09/29/osint-socmint-tooling.html Google dorks to access confidential information: https://benjaminstrick.com/dear-x-your-staff-passwords-numbers-and-confidential-data-is-on-google/ Blog post by Nixintel: https://nixintel.info/osint/do-dns-records-prove-that-jim-watkins-is-q/ Blog post by Rae Baker: https://medium.com/@raebaker/using-foca-for-osint-document-metadata-analysis-6745c8d709fa Search for emojis: https://www.fastemoji.com/ Update by Telegram: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1311591571498971136 2020 OSINT tools & resources handbook by @i_intelligence: https://i-intelligence.eu/resources/osint-toolkit FREE online investigative training course for journalists: https://twitter.com/KnightCenterUT/status/1312508586216497153 Create your own bookmarks database: https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-database-with-bookmarks/ Thread on how to investigate websites: https://twitter.com/aware_online/status/1308312883248467975 How discover relationships between websites using Maltego: https://www.maltego.com/blog/tracing-internet-relationships-with-maltego/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

This week’s guest is Emmanuelle Welch (@frenchpi) Emmanuelle Welch is a Licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and owner of French Connection Research, a private investigative agency in Brooklyn, NY, licensed in New York and Washington, DC. She specializes in white-collar crime investigations, cross-Atlantic litigation support and OSINT analysis. People in this Episode Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Nixintel (@nixintel) Kirby Plessas (@kirbstr) John (@thegumshoo) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Links to what we discussed Emmanuelle’s OSINT tools/resources start.me page for dating apps: https://start.me/p/VRxaj5/dating-apps-and-hook-up-sites-for-investigators Introduction to researching foreign influence in the US: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/14/introduction-to-researching-foreign-influence-in-the-us/ NEW Twitter Analysis framework by @sowdust: https://github.com/sowdust/tafferugli OSINT Intelligence Cycle by @sinwindie: https://www.secjuice.com/the-osint-intelligence-cycle-part-i-planning-and-direction/ Maltego Transform for Telegram: https://twitter.com/noneprivacy/status/1304357985297346560?s=21 Using R to find stories in financial publicly available data: https://medium.com/@itoufexi/how-i-used-the-companies-house-streaming-api-to-find-a-newsworthy-story-a96d787955b2 How hackers can find sensitive information in your photos: https://medium.com/digital-marketing-lab/subtle-information-hackers-find-in-the-background-of-your-social-media-photos-938ec1876246 Interesting and detailed case study about what can be found with someone’s passport number: https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram Google Account Finder: https://tools.epieos.com/google-account.php Best investigative podcasts: https://gijn.org/2020/09/09/a-global-tour-of-top-investigative-podcasts-the-2020-edition/ Call for proposals for ConINT (@conint)_io: https://twitter.com/CONINT_io/status/1306676769718706181 Database of industrial designs data: https://twitter.com/navlys_/status/1306333649877504000 How to use industrial designs data for OSINT: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/05/03/using-the-wipo-ip-portal-for-osint/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Welcome back! We are back with a brand new episode after our one-month summer break! In this week’s episode, we catch up with the latest OSINT news, as usual! People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico Dekens (@Dutch_osintguy) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Sector035 (@Sector035) Technisette (@technisette) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) What we discussed A big thank you to all our sponsors and Patreon patrons who have been supporting us!  Learn how to create a sock puppet account for your OSINT investigations here Learn about the main differences between the old and new Facebook design here Check out this new OSINT tool, called Redditor. It’s similar to Tweetdeck but just for Reddit Need some new OSINT resources? Then check out this amazing collection Dutch's talk about leveraging Telegram for OSINT purposes Sinwindie’s attack surface for Twitter. For similar flow charts, click here Interested in detecting deep fakes? Microsoft has launched a new tool to detect them Here’s a great thread about some of the most popular dark net markets. Get free and daily updates about new dark net sites Update about PimEye – a facial search engine Wanna track ‘dictators’? Check out this website that tracks aircraft associated with specific countries New updates for SentinelHub Also new updates for WhatsMyName – a username search engine developed by Micah in collaboration with OSINTCombine and many others.  Search for 393+ million US court records on JudyRecords Practice OSINT and work on real cases. Tracelabs has announced monthly OSINT Search Party CTFs! Self Promotion Micah will be at the OSINT Symposium in Australia and OSMOSISCon in October Rae will be presenting at the Bsides conference in Copenhagen on 18/19 September Lisette will be presenting at OSMOSISCon in October – check out her new website too --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Special Guest Inês Narciso (@IWN_LX) – Ines worked in the Portuguese Intelligence Service for 12 years. She started up doing OSINT in 2008 and later became an OSINT and online undercover operations project manager. In 2019, she joined Iscte Iul a Lisbon University where she teaches Digital Methods and conducts research on disinformation. Since then, she’s also built a company that uses OSINT to find people’s ancestors and build family trees. In her spare time, she also helps pro bono fellow journalists in Portugal and abroad in their investigations and women who have been a victim of revenge porn or intimate image abuse. People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico (@DutchOSINTGuy) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo Sector035 Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) Links to what we discussed Protecting personal privacy against unauthorized deep learning models: https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/ Search for videos across 60 platforms: https://www.peteyvid.com/ Estimate the size of a crowd with this tool: https://www.mapchecking.com/ Twitter thread about the video conferencing platform Zoom: https://twitter.com/securitytrails/status/1284187387103457282 Great verification case study in French: https://ledesk.ma/desintox/le-bonimenteur-de-habanos-sa-encore-frappe-il-sest-paye-un-panama-paper/ Twitter search tricks: https://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-search-tricks/13693/ Improved face detection software that even works on animals: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/digikams-improved-face-detection-for-photos-even-works-on-animals Blog that has started dropping “0Days” with regards to the TOR project: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/888-Tor-0day-Stopping-Tor-Connections.html New Telegram update: https://telegram.org/blog/profile-videos-people-nearby-and-more Upcoming virtual OSINT Symposium between 10 and 13 October: https://www.osintsymposium.com/event-details/australian-osint-symposium-1 Self Promotion Learn more about Ines’s work: https://medialab.iscte-iul.pt/ (in Portuguese with some English articles) The Open Source Intelligence Skills-building Conference (October 2020): https://www.osmosiscon.com/ German Open Source Intelligence Conference (GOCON): https://www.gosintcon.de/ – if you have any questions, reach out to Matthias (@mwosint) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Nixintel Technisette Baywolf88 Links to what we discussed https://www.instagram.com/hushpuppi/?hl=en Big phishing criminal Hushpuppi arrested in Dubai. His Instagram account was well-known for flaunting his wealth. Allowed investigators to track his movements and identify his financial assets. https://pimeyes.com/en/ Matches facial images from across the web https://keyfindings.blog/2020/07/01/saving-images-from-google-maps-and-street-view/ Getting photo sphere images from Google Maps using developer tools https://nixintel.info/osint/geolocating-mobile-phones-with-an-ip/ Gives insight on the locations of IP adresses https://twitter.com/SebMeineck/status/1281577528164003841 PimEye reaction to a recent article (https://netzpolitik.org/2020/pimeyes-face-search-company-is-abolishing-our-anonymity/), now you can’t upload a pic anymore. You can only allow PimEye access to your camera https://pskreporter.info/pskmap Shows ham radio operators (with call sign and location) worldwide. Might be useful is ever working on a case involving ham radios https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1281606517825974273 This website allows users to create a 3d reconstruction from a single image. super useful for osint investigations. https://medium.com/@CassiusXIII Guide to corporate OSINT recon https://keyfindings.blog/2020/07/12/how-to-geolocate-mobile-phones-or-not/ Follow-up on the IP geolocation article https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/who-where-whomwith-wwww-a-facial-recognition-tool-for-image-based-data-gathering-and-graph-dd8f2b13c279 https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/?context=1 TikTok mobile app security issues and how they may impact your investigations. Self Promotion Micah Hoffman, Nico Dekens & John TerBush: SANS SEC487 Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering & Analysis. Several options for Live Online & In Person --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Nixintel Ginsberg5150 Special Guest: Peter King (@ibexmind) additional info: https://ibexmind.com/ Links to what we discussed https://spoonbill.io/ Shows historic profile and pinned tweet changes for Twitter accounts. https://radar.freedar.uk/VirtualRadar/desktop.html Aircraft monitoring site but includes military/drones too. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-protests-arrests-fbi-lore-elisabeth-blumenthal-george-floyd-20200617.html Good OSINT case study, using social media to ID suspect https://citizenevidence.org/2020/06/26/investigating-infrastructure-links-with-passive-dns-and-whois-data/ Explains how to use OSINT to investigate a website, very beginner friendly https://www.tracelabs.org/trace-labs-osint-vm/ Trace Labs OSINT VM https://www.sans.org/webcasts/tech-tuesday-workshop-introduction-osint-video-image-verification-115875/ Nico’s free SANS image verification workshop https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynWOUeHAOflEQtJnrZpkNA/videos Layer8 OSINT and Social Engineering conference videos are posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Psyw3ADNvo&feature=youtu.be Sector035’s Google Dorking 10 minute tip https://www.osintcombine.com/post/download-social-media-videos-without-tools OSINTCombine’s blog post on using the web developer tools in web browsers to download videos on several social media platforms https://twitter.com/TraceLabs/status/1273950482214641665 Trace Labs has renamed their Missing CTF to OSINT Search Party CTF and is doing monthly global events! https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/09/523011446/how-playing-tetris-tames-the-trauma-of-a-car-crash?t=1593371114814 How Playing Tetris helps Tame Trauma Self Promotion Micah Hoffman, Nico Dekens & John TerBush: SANS SEC487 Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering & Analysis. Several options for Live Online & In Person Several Online workshops at dutchosintguy.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Originally aired May 3, 2020 People in this Episode  Micah Hoffman  Dutch_OsintGuy  Nico Technisette  Matthias Wilson (MWOsint)  Special Guest: Aliaume Leroy (@Yaolri) more info on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=aliaume+leroy  Links to what we discussed  https://www.aliseeks.com/search Good resource for recon when conducting IP infringement related work on seller that are active on AlieExpress  https://twitter.com/datajournalism/status/1255106297592254465 The new verification handbook got released this week, lots of useful osint tips, tricks and case studies by industry experts  https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1255547411201691651 Thread By Benjamin Strick about an ongoing campaign of Chines and Russian named Bots that are attacking a Chinese Businessman who has been critical of China’s response of Covid19  https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1256163055215489026?s=20 How birds and where they live can help during osint investigations  https://twitter.com/ShadowDragonIO/status/1256324472115564544 Nice webcast/podcast with some good insights in intelligence gathering, osint and the usage of online persona’s  https://twitter.com/baywolf88/status/1252630129085480966 A nice site to send reverse image searches to multiple sites and links to several other image related tools  https://medium.com/@lorenzoromani/facial-recognition-with-python-and-elasticsearch-quick-tutorial-85cd02fe903d Setting up your own facial recognition using Python and Elasticsearch  https://www.osintessentials.com/starter-tool Simple tool to give tips on how to start off with OSINT investigations. Similar to Micah’s YOGA, just more basic  https://keyfindings.blog/2020/05/03/using-the-wipo-ip-portal-for-osint/ Company research and reverse image searching using the WIPO IP Portal, there’s lots of data to be found in the patent, (trade-)mark and design databases on this portal  https://digitalforensicstips.com/2020/04/nation-state-quality-osint-on-a-taco-bell-budget-part-1/ Matt Edmondson’s OSINT blog post on using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for OSINT  This site also helps to identify type of birds in a picture: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/ (thnx to 89Kenny)  Self Promotion  Dutch_Osintguy : July 9, 2020 Workshop advanced searching and monitoring with Google for professionals  Micah Hofmann & Dutch_Osintguy Nico: Several options to follow the SANS SEC487 Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering and Analysis now with GOSI CERT ! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

People in this Episode  Micah Hoffman  Nico (Dutch_OsintGuy)  Matthias Wilson (MWOsint)  Nixintel  Kirby Plessas (kirbstr)  Sector035  John TerBush (thegumshoo)  Special Guest : Arno Reuser (@ArnoReuser) more info on ArnoReuser.com & http://bibliography.opensourceintelligence.biz/  Links to what we discussed  https://intelx.io The site hosts breach data that are easily searchable (for free)! We spoke about this in regards to its scraping of Pastebin pastes. If you have a paid account, you can access them.  https://untappd.osint.ninja This page is the webification of the UntappdScraper script Micah made. Makes it easy to analyze user-reported drinking behavior.  https://twitter.com/MwOsint/status/1249416474600628226 Another source for company research is import/export data. Find out who does business with a company and which means of transportation they use. The tweet depicts one example for such a (paid) database, in some countries this data is freely accessible  https://groundwork.azavea.com/ Annotation tool designed for geospatial data, useful for osint geo related research  https://medium.com/@Dutchosintguy/start-caring-stop-sharing-9c108d957b2c Blog by Dutch_Osintguy about the human factor in cyber and how easy it can be for bad actors to gain access to certain video calling session by using basic osint techniques  https://github.com/mattnotmax/cyberchef-recipes Great Cyberchef recipes which can be used for OSINT and cyber  https://twitter.com/olihough86/status/1250514824255221762 Pastebin has disabled its search function, even for Pro customers. This is bad news for OSINT because Pastebin was such a valuable resource, especially for threat intel.  https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/clearview-source-code-lapse/ This is more privacy than OSINT but the Clearview AI application source code and other files were found in a public location.  Self Promotion  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1-day-osint-skills-101-training-by-osint-curious-registration-92599869703 OSINT Curious 1 day OSINT 101 course!  Kirby is teaching online OSINT classes. Visit https://academy.plessas.net for more details.  Micah and Dutch_Osintguy will be doing OSINT SEC487 SANS Live Online trainings in the coming months. Visit https://www.sans.org/find-training/search?types=10&coursecode=SEC487&msc=course-page for details. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

Originally aired May 17, 20202 People in this Episode  Micah Hoffman  Nixintel  John TerBush  Rae Baker  Lorand Bodo  Chris Kubecka  Nico Dekens  Special Guest: Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) more info on: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko  Links to what we discussed  https://twitter.com/SANSInstitute/status/1260219450449633281 webinar SANS @MIC with Dutch_Osintguy talking about the “OSINT State of Mind”  https://twitter.com/msfrpy/status/1258467675065499650 Great tip by Musafir.py showing the importance of cropping sections of pictures to figure out a location using reverse image search  https://twitter.com/ding0snax/status/1260648866551967744 Great resource with lots of search engines and other recourses for OSINT  https://twitter.com/lorenzoromani/status/1260513489392721923 New blog post by Lorenzo Romani related to facial recognition on social media. Follow up of a previous post from Lorenzo  https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1261227044899348480 How to bring back search name by face in Google reverse image search  https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1260479927893319680 New awesome free tool from OSINT Combine (Chris Poulter). Rapid data visualization from local CSV files  https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1260537315291795463?s=19 How to detect bot networks on Twitter – case study by Lorand  https://twitter.com/DanielGallagher/status/1258620989275070464 Create 3D models from images  https://twitter.com/ZusorOW/status/1258885451055800320?s=19 Open source softwares’ reliance on various other open source software. The end of GoodTwitter is the end for twint  https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/verification-3 The new OSINT / Datajournalism verification handbook  Self Promotion  Dutch_Osintguy : July 9, 2020 Workshop advanced searching and monitoring with Google for professionals  Micah Hofmann, Dutch_Osintguy Nico & John Terbush: Several options to follow the SANS SEC487 Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering and Analysis now with GOSI CERT !  John TerBush Recorded Future podcast https://www.recordedfuture.com/insikt-weekly-podcast/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support

People in this Episode Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Technisette Special Guest : Jan Tegze (@jantegze) more info on sourcing.games Links to what we discussed Training yourself how to be an analytical thinker https://medium.com/@raebaker/training-yourself-to-be-an-analytical-thinker-476bdb7e7c99 Related to having an Analytical mind this shows analytical techniques in action through real cases https://study.sagepub.com/system/files/beebepherson2e_im_0.pdf Shows how EXIF data works, but also encourages people to keep digging into images even when EXIF data has been removed because it can still contain material of interest https://nixintel.info/osint/the-secret-life-of-jpegs/ 3 useful links for getting familiar with using api’s and python https://twitter.com/unknownuser1806/status/1244632977746718720?s=21 Alternative to Python? https://julialang.org/ Thread by Thomas from Pointer on fake news during covid (graphic images warning) https://twitter.com/Thms_Pointer/status/1245701702092759042 Great dashboard from OSINTCombine with loads of information on COVID19 from multiple sources https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1244383237494824960 Nice quiz on OPSEC, more OSINT related quizzes to come as well https://twitter.com/aware_online/status/1243087218270486529 Great case in which lots of different OSINT techniques are used. Tracking illicit arms trading with GEOINT, reverse image searching, SOCMINT (Twitter and Facebook), corporate research and maritime OSINT https://openfacto.fr/mv-single-eagle-from-second-hand-cars-to-air-defense-systems/ An OSINT/DFIR project on an OSINT tool with a surprising outcome https://keyfindings.blog/2020/03/23/be-careful-what-you-osint-with/ How to land a job in OSINT https://osintcurio.us/2020/04/01/how-to-land-an-osint-job/ Facebook tips and 10 minute tip video https://osintcurio.us/2020/04/02/facebook-tips/ Self Promotion Micah and Dutch_Osintguy will be doing OSINT SEC487 Sans Cybercast trainings the coming months https://www.sans.org/course/open-source-intelligence-gathering Stay tuned for more OSINTcurious lunches/breaksfast/dinner https://twitter.com/osintcurious --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osintcurious/support