In OSINT as in sport, there is definitely such a thing as home fixture advantage. We are always going to be able to identify the important little clues in an environment we are familiar with rather than one…
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Seeking Sector035 – Quiztime 30th January 2020
January has been a busy month both personally and professionally so I haven’t been able to take part in as many Quiztime challenges as I’d like to. Fortunately I had time to try Sector035’s Thursday Quiz. Sector035 posted not one…
Website Forensics: How To Detect Editorial Changes
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…
20 Questions – Quiztime 25th November 2019
How much information is there in a photograph? There is always more than you think. I learned recently that when miltary intelligence officers receive their training, they are given a photo that does not seem to contain much detail but…
Using Flight Tracking For Geolocation – Quiztime 30th October 2019
Things have been busy lately but I finally managed to catch up with a few recent Quiztime challenges. This post will explain how I managed to solve Tilman Wagner’s challenge from 30th October but I have to say it was…
Using FFMPEG To Grab Stills and Audio For OSINT
Many internet investigations feature video at some point. Being able to capture and analyse video content is an important skill, particularly if your task involves identifying people or places. You can always pause a video to try and view the…
Carbon-14: Verifying The Age of A Website
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…
Gap Analysis: Chrono and Geolocation In Berlin (Quiztime 7th October 2019)
I’ve written a few blogs about gap analysis before, but it’s an important skill for investigation and intelligence analysis work so I decided to write about it again. Daily Quiztime challenges are a good platform to demonstrate how this kind…
Digital Shadows: Seeking Sector035 – Quiztime 26th September 2019
How could you use open source information to trace a fugitive or a missing person? For this post I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see what information it would be possible to gather from Sector035’s recent Quiztime…
Three Useful Resources For Maps and Satellite Images
One of the most enjoyable things about the Twitter OSINT community is that someone somewhere will always be aware of a resource or tool that you’d never heard of before. I came across three new resources this week to do…