Holidays and work commitments mean that I haven’t had much time to tackle the daily Quiztime challenges recently, but participants in two of this week’s challenges from Sector035 and Fiete Stegers highlighted a couple of different approaches to photo geolocation…
Tag: images
Instagram OSINT – A Promising New Python Tool
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…
Quiztime 5th July – Lifeboats and Fast Reverse Image Searching
Rescue boats are a common theme in this week’s Quiztime. On Tuesday Lars Wienand asked us to locate a rescue boat and today Philipp Dudek asks another Lifeboat related question. This was quite a fun quiz to solve but after…
Quiztime 28th June 2019 – Planespotting On The Heide
When I was a child I spent a lot of time living around various military establishments in Germany. In the 1980s the north German plain was packed with NATO soldiers ready to fight the Russians in case they ever rolled…
Tell, Explain, Describe… Asking The Right Questions To Get The Right Answers – Quiztime 25th June 2019
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…
Quiztime 5th June 2019 – Movies, CGI, and Trainspotting
It’s been a busy time and I didn’t get much chance to do the daily Quiztime challenge last week, but I did really enjoy the most recent quiz posted by Tilman Wagner. It was the first video based Quiztime I’ve…
Two Useful Reverse Image Tools
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…
Using Gap Analysis To Keep OSINT Investigations On Track
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…
Quiztime – Following Eintracht Frankfurt with Lars Wienand
Lars Wienand post challenges for Quiztime on Tuesdays. I’ve only tried a couple of his quizzes in the last few weeks but they were both fun to do. In this post I’m going to post my solutions for Lars’ quizzes…
Using URL Manipulation To Get Higher Resolution Instagram and Twitter Images
Images captured from Twitter and Instagram can be an important part of any OSINT investigation, but the images presented to us in a web browser are rarely of the same quality as when they were first taken and uploaded. Not…