“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes I’m not usually a big fan of Sherlock Holmes. Like many other fictional detectives, I don’t think he’s a particularly effective investigator.…
Tag: Quiztime
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…
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 24th May 2019 – Live OSINT gathering for the #ClimateStrike
Today’s Quiztime was run by Fiete Stegers once again. It posed a very different kind of OSINT challenge because it involved gathering information in live-time from very volatile sources. On one hand this meant it was possible to get a…
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…
Two Great OSINT Training Tools
If you enjoy regular OSINT quizzes like Quiztime there are a couple of other good resources out there that can help to develop a wide-range of skills for internet investigations. Here are a couple of my favourites: Sourcing.Games Sourcing.Games is…
Quiztime 10th May – A Lego Journey With Fiete Stegers
All too often OSINT investigation is fixated by tools that we hope will make the job easier. Good tools do make OSINT easier, but they can never be a substitute for having a good understanding of the principles that underpin…