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 […]
Using FFMPEG To Grab Stills and Audio For OSINT Read More »
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 »
Speed is a critical factor in investigations of any kind. The longer information is left or ignored, the more likely it is to become obscured, contaminated, or disappear altogether. This is true of any kind of information, whether it be an eyewitness, a server log, a tweet, a fingerprint, or anything else that an investigator
I don’t think any investigative training programme ever recommends that you just use your gut instinct to reach a conclusion. This is not necessarily a bad thing because any conclusions that an investigator reaches has to be support by objective evidence. Anyone should be able to take the same steps and come to the same
Where In The World? Global and Local Identifiers – Quiztime 12th Sept 2019 Read More »
