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 addresses, IP addresses, domains, phone numbers, usernames, and other types of data. This post will …
Getting Started With Spiderfoot – A Beginner’s Guide Read More »
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 an eyewitness, a server log, a tweet, a fingerprint, or anything else that an investigator …
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 with mapping and geolocation investigations that look as though they could be very useful. Here’s …
Three Useful Resources For Maps and Satellite Images Read More »
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 evidence. Anyone should be able to take the same steps and come to the same …
Where In The World? Global and Local Identifiers – Quiztime 12th Sept 2019 Read More »
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. The rest of this post will look at a range of different tools and techniques …
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 the job. There are many reasons for this but the main reason is that almost …
One Search To Rule Them All – Boolean Searches For Images Read More »