In OSINT we make use of the wealth of information that is now available to us, but so often it becomes the case that there is too much information for us to process effectively. It’s easy to drown in a sea of data and you can quickly find yourself with twenty browser tabs open having […]
Using Gap Analysis For Smarter OSINT – Quiztime 4th March 2020 Read More »
I’ve written a few blogs about gap analysis before, but it’s an important skill for investigation and intelligence analysis work so I decided to write about it again. Daily Quiztime challenges are a good platform to demonstrate how this kind of methodology can be applied, and it is just as suitable for small scale OSINT
Gap Analysis: Chrono and Geolocation In Berlin (Quiztime 7th October 2019) Read More »
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 from all kinds of sources, but how do you decide to prioritise it? What information
Using Gap Analysis To Keep OSINT Investigations On Track Read More »
Some images are easier to geolocate than others. If an image is easy to geolocate it is generally because at least one of the following three conditions apply: Sometimes none of these conditions apply. When this is the case geolocation becomes much harder and a more methodological structure is needed. Here’s a walkthrough of such
Geolocation: At The Retail Park Read More »
Sometimes the way to solve a geolocation challenge is obvious. Other times less so. The Quiztime challenge that Fiete Stegers set on 8th October was certainly in the latter category and was probably the hardest Quiztime I’ve attempted so far. This is quite a lengthy write-up, so click to skip ahead to sections of interest.
Planes and Cell Masts: A Quiztime Epic Read More »
Ever since I started blogging about image geolocation I’ve tried to write about methods and techniques that make solving these kind of puzzles more structured and systematic. In my professional career I was (until recently) a criminal investigator so it was helpful for me to transfer habits and methodologies from traditional investigation to the subject
Extract, Research, Verify: Quiztime 6th October 2020. Read More »
Twitter would not be Twitter without a daily dose of QAnon drama. Recently there were claims that since Q-drop archive site qmap.pub now shares the same IP as 8Kun proved that 8Kun owner Jim Watkins is Q. I’m not sure that a reverse IP lookup by itself can really stretch that far, but it does
DNS Records, QAnon, and How To Handle Uncertainty In OSINT. Read More »
During lockdown I’ve spent a lot of my evenings trying to improve my coding and data science skills with Datacamp. As I’ve tried to apply my new found knowledge to real world projects I’ve come to learn that about 80% of working with data is cleaning it up and making it tidy before you can
Planes & Trains – Quiztime 24th June 2020 Read More »
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 »
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
