Some images are easier to geolocate than others. If an image is easy to geolocate it is generally because at least one of the following three conditions apply: Sometimes none of these conditions apply. When this is the case geolocation becomes much harder and a more methodological structure is needed. Here’s a walkthrough of such …
This week’s huge protests in Israel drew huge crowds to the streets – but how many people took part? Crowd sizes are often used as evidence to show how widely supported a particular cause is, so being able to determine how many people took part in a demonstration is an important skill for those working …
A common challenge for OSINT practitioners and penetration testers alike is to fully identify the range of domains owned and managed by a particular organisation. Identifying the main domain that a company owns is usually fairly easy since it can be found in the second half of a company email ([email protected]) or as part of …
How To Identify A Company’s Domains With Azure AD Read More »
In last week’s Wednesday Quiz Tilman Wagner posted this photo and asked us several questions about it: 1) Who posted it and where? 2) What was the occasion? 3) Did Tilman participate, and if so, how? So where to start? We need to know the location before we can answer any of Tilman’s questions. There …
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If you’ve been interested in geolocation for any length of time, you’ll already be familiar with some of the most common tools that researchers make use of: Google Maps & Street View, Google Earth, reverse image search tools, Suncalc, and so on. There are many lesser-known tools that are also useful and can help to …
In this video Technisette and I joined David Bombal to demonstrate some different geolocation techniques. We covered quite a few topics including: EXIF Data Using terrain features to find locations with Google Earth Removing unwanted parts of an image to do better reverse image searches Cropping and reverse searching images with Bing and Google Lens …
Being able to prove exactly when data was posted to the internet is a core skill for internet investigators. If you want to be able to prove when a video was first uploaded, when an account was created, or when an editorial change was made to a website, then you need to be able to …
Investigators are often faced with an overwhelming amount of data. In these situations finding an exact person, time, or place among all the noise can be very difficult. This problem is not limited to geo- or chronolocation challenges like those published by Quiztime either. Fortunately this is not a new problem and there are tried …
The Process of Elimination – Quiztime Jan 14th 2022 Read More »
Sometimes the way to solve a geolocation challenge is obvious. Other times less so. The Quiztime challenge that Fiete Stegers set on 8th October was certainly in the latter category and was probably the hardest Quiztime I’ve attempted so far. This is quite a lengthy write-up, so click to skip ahead to sections of interest. …
Ever since I started blogging about image geolocation I’ve tried to write about methods and techniques that make solving these kind of puzzles more structured and systematic. In my professional career I was (until recently) a criminal investigator so it was helpful for me to transfer habits and methodologies from traditional investigation to the subject …
Extract, Research, Verify: Quiztime 6th October 2020. Read More »