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…
Month: May 2019
Using Gap Analysis To Keep OSINT Investigations On Track
With any kind of OSINT investigation it’s easy to gather huge amounts of data in a very short amount of time, but what do you do with it all? There are thousands of tools you can use to scrape information…
Quiztime 24th May 2019 – Live OSINT gathering for the #ClimateStrike
Today’s Quiztime was run by Fiete Stegers once again. It posed a very different kind of OSINT challenge because it involved gathering information in live-time from very volatile sources. On one hand this meant it was possible to get a…
Quiztime – Following Eintracht Frankfurt with Lars Wienand
Lars Wienand post challenges for Quiztime on Tuesdays. I’ve only tried a couple of his quizzes in the last few weeks but they were both fun to do. In this post I’m going to post my solutions for Lars’ quizzes…
Finding Usernames With Sherlock
Identifying and tracing a person’s footprints across the internet usually involves researching usernames across a wide variety of different platforms. There are many tools available to do this, but I’m a big fan of Sherlock for conducting quick and…
Two Great OSINT Training Tools
If you enjoy regular OSINT quizzes like Quiztime there are a couple of other good resources out there that can help to develop a wide-range of skills for internet investigations. Here are a couple of my favourites: Sourcing.Games Sourcing.Games is…
Obtaining Useful Information From A Kik Profile
Last week I posted about how it was possible to obtain hi-res images and other information from Instagram and Twitter accounts by amending some of the URLs that the applications present by default. In a similar way it’s possible to…
Quiztime 17th May 2019 – Where is Phillip Dudek?
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…