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Three Gmail OSINT Tips

Discovering email addresses or user names is an important part of OSINT work. In this short article I’ll look at three methods for gathering information about Gmail users. How To Tell If An Organisation Uses Gmail The growth of GSuite (now better known as Google Workspace) for cloud based productivity means that organisations can link …

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Extract, Research, Verify: Quiztime 6th October 2020.

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 …

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The Attrition of Information in OSINT: Why Acting Quickly Matters, And How To Recover When You Don’t.

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 …

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