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 »
Everyone who does OSINT is usually reliant on Facebook’s graph search tool for researching their subjects. Great sites like Whopostedwhat, Stalkscan, and Plessas Matrix are essential resources for allowing researchers to see what information is publicly available on Facebook about a particular person, place, or institution. The graph search’s most useful purpose for OSINT was
Facebook Graph Search Workaround Read More »
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 RI tools only allow you to search across one or two search engines like Google
Two Useful Reverse Image Tools 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 »
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 lot of data very quickly and find Fiete in a very short time, but on
Quiztime 24th May 2019 – Live OSINT gathering for the #ClimateStrike Read More »
