How do you identify the people or group who run a website? Knowing who really owns or controls a domain is an important part of many online investigations, but it can be very hard to do in cases where people…
True, False, Or Cannot Say? Asking The Right Questions In OSINT Investigations
With the loss of a lot of well-used OSINT tools recently, it’s time to be reminded about what really makes for an effective OSINT investigation and that although tools come and go, the principles of good investigation don’t change. Good…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 5
The first four parts of this series of posts looked at how to build your own custom Buscador-style OSINT virtual machine. Part One showed how to install Ubuntu, Part Two looked at installing programs from the Ubuntu software, Part Three…
Quiztime 5th June 2019 – Movies, CGI, and Trainspotting
It’s been a busy time and I didn’t get much chance to do the daily Quiztime challenge last week, but I did really enjoy the most recent quiz posted by Tilman Wagner. It was the first video based Quiztime I’ve…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – part 4
The last post in this guide looked at how to install some useful OSINT programs for Linux directly from the internet. In this post I’ll show how to install some of the many popular Python-based OSINT tools that are available.…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 3
This is the third part in a series of posts that show how you can make your own custom Linux OSINT virtual machine similar to Buscador. The first post showed to create a virtual machine with Virtualbox and Ubuntu Linux,…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 2
In my last post I showed how it was possibly to create your own custom OSINT virtual machine based on Ubuntu Linux. The first post covered the basics of how to set up and install Ubuntu 19.04 with Virtual Box…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – DIY Buscador (Part 1)
Over the last few years I’ve moved from working entirely in a Windows environment, to trying Linux in a virtual machine (Kali and Buscador), before dual booting my PC (Windows 10 / Linux Mint) before finally ditching Windows completely and…
Facebook Graph Search Workaround
Everyone who does OSINT is usually reliant on Facebook’s graph search tool for researching their subjects. Great sites like Whopostedwhat, Stalkscan, and Plessas Matrix are essential resources for allowing researchers to see what information is publicly available on Facebook about…
Two Useful Reverse Image Tools
Reverse image searches are an important part of any OSINT investigation. There are dozens of specialist search engines available, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, but checking an image against numerous separate search engines is time consuming. Frustratingly many…