One of my life rules is never to make important decisions after 9 o’clock at night. It starts to get late, a tired mind doesn’t focus as well, and anything important can be delayed until the morning when things are…
Using URL Manipulation To Get Higher Resolution Instagram and Twitter Images
Images captured from Twitter and Instagram can be an important part of any OSINT investigation, but the images presented to us in a web browser are rarely of the same quality as when they were first taken and uploaded. Not…
Quiztime 10th May – A Lego Journey With Fiete Stegers
All too often OSINT investigation is fixated by tools that we hope will make the job easier. Good tools do make OSINT easier, but they can never be a substitute for having a good understanding of the principles that underpin…
Treeverse – Visualise Twitter Conversations
Treeverse by Paul Butler has been around for a while now but it’s still one of the best ways to visualise and keep track of busy multi-threaded Twitter conversations. Originally only available in Chrome, a Firefox extension became available at…
Website Attribution – Cloudflare v Cloudflair
For a while I’ve wanted to write about the demise of WHOIS and the challenges faced by investigators trying to identify who owns or operates illegal websites that are hidden behind layers of obfuscation and obscurity. There’s no perfect solution,…
Quiztime – 9th May 2019 – The French Prison System
Today’s Quiztime challenge was from Sector035. It’s a straightforward geolocation question – or at least the type of question is straightforward, the solution was certainly not. Incidentally you should check out Sector035’s blog for great weekly OSINT resource updates. The…
Useful Resources For Financial & Corporate OSINT
I’ve come across a few useful resources for those interested in OSINT relating to businesses and corporations. Some are well known, some less so, but they’re all useful in their own way. 1. Companies House (UK) https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house Every single company…
Quiztime – 22nd April 2019 – Easter in Köln
Easter Monday’s Quiztime challenge was from Julia Bayer. It was difficult but really quite addictive – I spent more hours on this than I should have, but I got there in the end. This was the challenge: Julia gave…
Quiztime – 23rd April 2019
Recently I’ve discovered the excellent daily Twitter OSINT challenge Quiztime. Run by a group of OSINT and geolocation experts, Quiztime offers a daily puzzle where participants usually have to identify a location based on an image and then find out…