Remaining anonymous is often an important concern for OSINT practitioners. There are many types of OSINT, and many different reasons why we do not necessarily want our subjects to know we are trying to find out about them. A recruiter…
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Website Attribution Without WhoIs – Reverse IP Lookups (Part 2)
In my last post on Reverse IP Lookups I wrote about the challenges OSINT investigators face when it comes to attributing a website to someone. Reverse IP lookups show which other domains are hosted at the same IP address, which…
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…
Build Your Own Custom OSINT Machine – Part 2
In my last post I showed how it was possibly to create your own custom OSINT virtual machine based on Ubuntu Linux. The first post covered the basics of how to set up and install Ubuntu 19.04 with Virtual Box…
Two Useful Reverse Image Tools
Reverse image searches are an important part of any OSINT investigation. There are dozens of specialist search engines available, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, but checking an image against numerous separate search engines is time consuming. Frustratingly many…
Useful Resources For Financial & Corporate OSINT
I’ve come across a few useful resources for those interested in OSINT relating to businesses and corporations. Some are well known, some less so, but they’re all useful in their own way. 1. Companies House (UK) https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house Every single company…