Capturing and preserving media content is an essential part of most OSINT investigations. There are a number of tools available to do this, but my favourite my far is YouTube-dl. Despite it’s name, YouTube-dl is capable of grabbing videos quickly from a range of different websites including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LiveLeak, and many others. It’s …
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I came across a new Instragram scraping tool InstagramOSINT after DutchOsintGuy and Hwosint pointed it out on Twitter. I’ve stopped using InstaLooter since it kept causing dependency issues, and I started using InstaScraper as a photo grabbing tool. InstagramOSINT is more than a photo-scraping tool. It’s very new but it gets additional information via the …
The first four parts of this series of posts looked at how to build your own custom Buscador-style OSINT virtual machine. Part One showed how to install Ubuntu, Part Two looked at installing programs from the Ubuntu software, Part Three was about how to install tools from the web with .deb packages, while Part Four …
The last post in this guide looked at how to install some useful OSINT programs for Linux directly from the internet. In this post I’ll show how to install some of the many popular Python-based OSINT tools that are available. It’s easy to feel intimidated by using the command line, but by the end of …
This is the third part in a series of posts that show how you can make your own custom Linux OSINT virtual machine similar to Buscador. The first post showed to create a virtual machine with Virtualbox and Ubuntu Linux, while the second post showed how to install some useful apps directly from the Ubuntu …
In my last post I showed how it was possibly to create your own custom OSINT virtual machine based on Ubuntu Linux. The first post covered the basics of how to set up and install Ubuntu 19.04 with Virtual Box and install VLC Media Player from the software centre. Like the previous post, this one …
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 …
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