Many OSINT investigations involve an e-mail address at some point. Some even start with an e-mail address and nothing else. Either way, an e-mail address can be an imporant gateway to a lot of extra OSINT information. This post looks…
Tag: Techniques
Quiztime 25th August 2019 – Military Vehicles & Geolocation
This Sunday we were treated to an extra Quiztime image location challenge which involved an unidentified military vehicle. Doxsor posted this image and asked where this military vehicle was headed to, and which barracks was closest to the location: …
Two Different Approaches To Photo-Geolocation
Holidays and work commitments mean that I haven’t had much time to tackle the daily Quiztime challenges recently, but participants in two of this week’s challenges from Sector035 and Fiete Stegers highlighted a couple of different approaches to photo geolocation…
Grabbing Videos For OSINT – How To Use YouTube-DL
Capturing and preserving media content is an essential part of most OSINT investigations. There are a number of tools available to do this, but my favourite my far is YouTube-dl. Despite it’s name, YouTube-dl is capable of grabbing videos quickly…
Website Investigation – Where Did 8Chan Move To?
After the El Paso shooting this past weekend, it quickly emerged that the shooter had apparently posted his manifesto on 8Chan prior to carrying out the killings. As a result Cloudflare announced that they would no longer permit 8Chan to…
Opsec for OSINT – Why You Need To Deal With Browser Fingerprinting
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…
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…
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…
True, False, Or Cannot Say? Asking The Right Questions In OSINT Investigations
With the loss of a lot of well-used OSINT tools recently, it’s time to be reminded about what really makes for an effective OSINT investigation and that although tools come and go, the principles of good investigation don’t change. Good…
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…