When I was a child I spent a lot of time living around various military establishments in Germany. In the 1980s the north German plain was packed with NATO soldiers ready to fight the Russians in case they ever rolled over the East German border (remember when that was a thing?). Nowadays the Russians prefer …
Quiztime 28th June 2019 – Planespotting On The Heide Read More »
In the short time that I have been blogging, many of the OSINT tools I’ve referred to have already become obsolete or no longer exist. Facebook removed Graph Search, Twitter removed geotagged Tweets, IntelTechniques lost its tools, and Pipl went behind a paywall. Although these setbacks can be frustrating, it’s important to remember that the …
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 do not want to be identified. The quickest and easiest way to find out who …
Website Attribution Without WhoIs – Reverse IP Lookup Read More »
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 OSINT investigations start with a decision about method and parameters first – what do I …
True, False, Or Cannot Say? Asking The Right Questions In OSINT Investigations Read More »
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 was about how to install tools from the web with .deb packages, while Part Four …
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 attempted and as always I learned some new things along the way. Here’s the film …
Quiztime 5th June 2019 – Movies, CGI, and Trainspotting Read More »
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. It’s easy to feel intimidated by using the command line, but by the end of …
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, while the second post showed how to install some useful apps directly from the Ubuntu …
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 and install VLC Media Player from the software centre. Like the previous post, this one …
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 settling on an OSINT build that runs entirely in Linux Mint. Mint is derived from …
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – DIY Buscador (Part 1) Read More »