Spiderfoot is one of my favourite OSINT gathering tools. It automates a huge number of queries that would take a long time to do manually. It comes with a wide range of modules that will conduct automated searches for e-mail…
Month: September 2019
The Attrition of Information in OSINT: Why Acting Quickly Matters, And How To Recover When You Don’t.
Speed is a critical factor in investigations of any kind. The longer information is left or ignored, the more likely it is to become obscured, contaminated, or disappear altogether. This is true of any kind of information, whether it be…
Three Useful Resources For Maps and Satellite Images
One of the most enjoyable things about the Twitter OSINT community is that someone somewhere will always be aware of a resource or tool that you’d never heard of before. I came across three new resources this week to do…
Where In The World? Global and Local Identifiers – Quiztime 12th Sept 2019
I don’t think any investigative training programme ever recommends that you just use your gut instinct to reach a conclusion. This is not necessarily a bad thing because any conclusions that an investigator reaches has to be support by objective…
12 OSINT Resources For E-mail Addresses
Most OSINT investigations involve an e-mail address at some point. Some start with an e-mail and nothing else. E-mail addresses can sometimes be a bit of a challenge but they can also provide a wealth of information about a subject.…
One Search To Rule Them All – Boolean Searches For Images
In this blog I’ve often tried to emphasise how important it is to grasp the basic principles of investigation and learn how to apply the right method to a problem instead of just relying on a few tools to do…