Using photographs for OSINT purposes is not new but almost all work of this kind mostly focuses on the visual content of images. Much less well known is the usefulness of image meta- and file data for research purposes. Beyond the visual appearance of an image there is often additional information hidden within an image …
A few months ago I wrote about how you could use Carbon-14 to detect the timestamps for images published in webpages. By comparing the publication times of the images with the publication time of the page itself it is possible to construct a timeline of when various elements in webpage were put together and so …
Website Forensics: How To Detect Editorial Changes Read More »
Carbon14 is a really useful Python tool for website investigations and verification. It allows investigators to work out when a webpage was created, and if it has potentially been altered since it was first published. Carbon14 checks the data attached to the images embedded in a webpage to be able to tell when they were …
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 »