Discovering email addresses or user names is an important part of OSINT work. In this short article I’ll look at three methods for gathering information about Gmail users. How To Tell If An Organisation Uses Gmail The growth of GSuite (now better known as Google Workspace) for cloud based productivity means that organisations can link …
The last blog post I wrote about Fake Twitter profiles is by far the most widely-read post I’ve ever published since I started this blog. It’s nice when people read your work but there was a little sour note with this post after it was pointed out to me that someone had been posting it …
Who Stole My Stuff? Finding Out Who Is Behind A Website Read More »
WordPress is the base that 35% of the world’s websites are built on. If you’re ever going to investigate a website, then it’s really important to be able to know your way around a WordPress setup. In this tutorial I’m going to show how to identify user accounts on a WordPress-based website so that you …
OSINT Techniques: Who’s Behind A WordPress Site? Read More »
Automation or Augmentation? Automation is an increasingly important part of OSINT. Even the simplest of investigations can require large amounts of different data types to be gathered and analysed quickly. Yet it is not accurate to suggest that all OSINT work is going to be automated as time progresses. Good OSINT practitioners will do …
Crypto Scam Investigation: Using Spiderfoot HX For OSINT Automation Read More »
I was originally going to write this guide as part of my post on OSINT for e-mail addresses, but really this is better as separate subject. PGP keys are used for a variety of purposes, but one of the main reasons they exist is to allow someone to verify and protect their online identity. They …
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 »
Identifying and tracing a person’s footprints across the internet usually involves researching usernames across a wide variety of different platforms. There are many tools available to do this, but I’m a big fan of Sherlock for conducting quick and accurate username searches. Compared to some of the web-based alternatives like KnowEm and Namechk it …