1st October 2020
DNS Records, QAnon, and How To Handle Uncertainty In OSINT.
Twitter would not be Twitter without a daily dose of QAnon drama. Recently there were claims that since Q-drop archive…
Tag: website attribution
18th August 2020
Website OSINT: What’s The Link Between Antifa.com and Russia?
The term “OSINT” sometimes gets thrown around a little too loosely. The “open source” part of OSINT is straightfoward enough:…
14th March 2020
Who Stole My Stuff? Finding Out Who Is Behind A Website
The last blog post I wrote about Fake Twitter profiles is by far the most widely-read post I’ve ever published…
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…
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…
21st November 2019
Using Spiderfoot HX To Investigate A Malicious IP Address
Using OSINT to identify and investigate sources of malicious internet activity is a key part of cyber security. There’s a…
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,…
17th September 2019
12 OSINT Resources For E-mail Addresses
Most OSINT investigations involve an e-mail address at some point. Some start with an e-mail and nothing else. E-mail addresses…