26th January 2020
Website Forensics: How To Detect Editorial Changes
A few months ago I wrote about how you could use Carbon-14 to detect the timestamps for images published in…
Tag: Tutorials & Guides
20th January 2020
OSINT Techniques: Who’s Behind A WordPress Site?
WordPress is the base that 35% of the world’s websites are built on. If you’re ever going to investigate a…
15th December 2019
Crypto Scam Investigation: Using Spiderfoot HX For OSINT Automation
Automation or Augmentation? Automation is an increasingly important part of OSINT. Even the simplest of investigations can require large…
2nd December 2019
Spiderfoot HX: Investigating A Domain Used For Phishing
In my last Spiderfoot tutorial I wrote about how Spiderfoot HX could be used to gather information about a suspicious…
3rd November 2019
Using PGP Keys For OSINT
I was originally going to write this guide as part of my post on OSINT for e-mail addresses, but really…
27th October 2019
Using FFMPEG To Grab Stills and Audio For OSINT
Many internet investigations feature video at some point. Being able to capture and analyse video content is an important skill,…
18th October 2019
Carbon-14: Verifying The Age of A Website
Carbon14 is a really useful Python tool for website investigations and verification. It allows investigators to work out when a…
5th October 2019
Digital Shadows: Seeking Sector035 – Quiztime 26th September 2019
How could you use open source information to trace a fugitive or a missing person? For this post I thought…
1st October 2019
Search Tip: Finding Historic WhoIs Data
The WhoIs system used to be a goldmine for OSINT investigators. It was usually possible to find out the address,…
29th September 2019
Getting Started With Spiderfoot – A Beginner’s Guide
Spiderfoot is one of my favourite OSINT gathering tools. It automates a huge number of queries that would take a…