How can you become more accurate with photo geolocation? Finding a country is good, finding a town is better, finding a street in a town is better still – but is it possible to get even more accurate than that? It depends on the needs of your case, but if you want to geolocate and …
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 we aren’t. So when I saw Paul Fennell post this geolocation challenge I was pleased …
Where Was This Taken? Church Spires and Steering Wheels Read More »
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 but two photos. All we had to do was establish where exactly they were taken. …
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 »
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 they are required to produce twenty pieces of intelligence from it: Who is in the …
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 by far the hardest Quiztime challenge I have ever managed to solve. It is not …
Using Flight Tracking For Geolocation – Quiztime 30th October 2019 Read More »
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 details that you’re interested in, but this can be slow and very inefficient, particularly if …
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 …
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 of methodology can be applied, and it is just as suitable for small scale OSINT …
Gap Analysis: Chrono and Geolocation In Berlin (Quiztime 7th October 2019) Read More »
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 challenge. On the surface it was quite a straightforward photo geolocation question, but there is …
Digital Shadows: Seeking Sector035 – Quiztime 26th September 2019 Read More »