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 »
Edit: I recently discussed how to use Carbon14 during a recent SANS webcast on website investigations. Since I wrote this post a few years ago Python 2.7 has been deprecated. Carbon14 now works in Python 3 but will only work with Python 3.8 and lower, so you’ll need to have an environment with Python 3.8
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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 »
The WhoIs system used to be a goldmine for OSINT investigators. It was usually possible to find out the address, phone number, and e-mail address of the person who owned or at least registered the website. However the increasing use of privacy services by domain registrars, as well GDPR, has drastically reduced the usefulness of
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Spiderfoot is one of my favourite OSINT gathering tools. It automates a huge number of queries that would take a long time to do manually. It comes with a wide range of modules that will conduct automated searches for e-mail addresses, IP addresses, domains, phone numbers, usernames, and other types of data. This post will
Getting Started With Spiderfoot – A Beginner’s Guide Read More »
