What’s the most boring part of Open Source Intelligence? Most OSINT practitioners (including me) usually enjoy the research phase of an assignment the most. Collecting data and finding new lines of enquiry is fun, but writing it all up at the end is usually dull. Well-written reports are a vital part of the OSINT process, […]
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One of the biggest challenges of internet investigation is preserving data once you’ve found it. We have access to more information than ever before, but so much of it can be easily lost if we don’t take steps to archive it. If you’ve ever bookmarked an important resource only to come back later and see
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In my last Spiderfoot tutorial I wrote about how Spiderfoot HX could be used to gather information about a suspicious IP address and then analyse and visualise the data. In this guide I’m going to show how Spiderfoot HX can be used to investigate a domain linked to phishing. Despite a lot of high-profile
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Using OSINT to identify and investigate sources of malicious internet activity is a key part of cyber security. There’s a huge range of open source information out there to help with this, and Spiderfoot HX gathers it very quickly. This allows more time to spend on analysis of the data to help assess the nature
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Edit: I recently discussed how to use Carbon14 during a recent SANS webcast on website investigations. Since I wrote this post a few years ago Python 2.7 has been deprecated. Carbon14 now works in Python 3 but will only work with Python 3.8 and lower, so you’ll need to have an environment with Python 3.8
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