Osintcurious

In this episode the #osintcurious crew interviews Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson). He is a well known #cyber security researcher with lots of mobile application reverse #malware engineering skills.  We talk with him about how he overlaps reverse engineering with #OSINT as well as his new company that makes #bigdata available to fight #disinformation amongst other subjects. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Check out our interview with Rui Barros. Rui is a Portuguese data journalist and uses data to tell stories. His visualizations and work can be found on his website: https://ruimgbarros.com/projects/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this #osintcurious​ interview we sit down with Griffin (@hatless1der).   We talk about his background doing investigative work for over 20 years and how he started getting into #OSINT​. We talk about how he combines OSINT within his investigation within the private sector as well as him being part of the NCPTF (National Child Protection Task Force). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Tune for this episode and listen to Micah, Steven, Ines and Technisette engage in the newest OSINT topics --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Join the OSINT Curious crew as they discuss OSINT tips, tricks and techniques --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

This time we interviewed our new #osintcurious​ advisory board member Christina Lekati. We talked about her background in psychology and how it correlates to #osint​ and #humint​. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

We had a chance to interview Justin Seitz a.k.a @jms_dot_py. Justin is the owner of Hunchly, creator of two Python coding Books, co- author Automating OSINT with Python course to name a few things. He is a renowned name within the cyber and OSINT community. Join the OSINTcurious crew and Justin for a interview and talk with Justin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Join Technisette (@technisette), Inês (@IWN_LX), Nico (@dutch_osintguy), Micah (@WebBreacher) and Steven (@nixintel) on the newest episode as they discuss the skills needed to become an intermediate OSINTer. How do you improve your OSINT skills? How do you find an OSINT job? Will certificates help you in your job search? Lean back and listen to these experts provide valuable tips on how to get to the next level of OSINT. Furthermore, the team takes a look at the possibilities that Shodan offers in OSINT investigations.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

Happy New Year! We're back in 2021 with a new format. Today Micah (@WebBreacher), John (@thegumshoo), Steve (@nixintel) and Matthias (@MwOsint) discuss OSINT activities around the recent event at the US Capitol, e.g. how crowd-sourced OSINT can support law enforcement and how content was collected and saved by non-profits before being erased off the internet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

In this final episode of The OSINT Curious Project webcast/podcast in 2020, we have an interesting panel discussion for you. Micah, Matthias, and Steven discuss some OSINT topics. People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Steven Harris (@nixintel) Links to what we discussed Micah spoke about The OSINT Curious Project and its resources. Page to find the Advisory and Executive Board members: https://osintcurio.us/about-our-project/ Page to find an organized list of our blogs and videos: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources Page to find our sponsors and patrons: https://osintcurio.us/sponsors-and-contributors/ Patreon page to send donations to help us run the project: https://patreon.com/osintcurious Our discussion today, touched upon the following topics: Understanding how tools work (https://medium.com/@micallst/misusing-osint-to-claim-election-fraud-cfb89c858c3a) Tools versus training Creating final intel products Sharing of OSINT techniques Creating a risk pro

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) Links to what we discussed Nico is tracking all black friday / cyber monday related deals for you: https://github.com/Dutchosintguy/Blackfriday-Deals-2020 Interesting Twitter thread on Arabic clothing that might be useful in some OSINT investigations: https://twitter.com/AD_GQ/status/1331092825858076673 Nico’s tip on how to search for Parler content without accessing Parler: https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1330515656916262912 Keyword search is coming to Instagram! More info here: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/17/21570475/instagram-keyword-search-update-hashtag-account?__twitter_impression=true YouTube-DI is back on GitHub: https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/ Practice your verification skills with First Draft News’s new interactive quizzes: https://ftp.firstdraftnews.org/articulate/temp/ovcR/story_html5.html Need

Today’s special guest is Samuel Lolagar @osintgeek Samuel’s website: https://osintgeek.de People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@MwOsint) Steven Harris (@nixintel) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Lisette (@technisette) Links to what we discussed Here’s a new VM from FireEye for threat intel/research: https://github.com/fireeye/ThreatPursuit-VM Check out OSINTCombine’s new blog post on dark web OSINT: https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1326329875037216768 If you want to know more about Parler and what info you can find: https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1326973035207921667 Case study of how to verify and geolocate images: https://mxsx.eu/2020/11/13/Wakashio.html How to use ETags (part of the HTTP response) in OSINT investigations: https://medium.com/@catalyst256/osint-etag-youre-it-ecd7e923392c Article about militias, their radio gears and channel frequencies utilised by them: https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/1

Today’s special guest Amine (@aityaakub) People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Steven Harris (@nixintel) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Links to what we discussed TOCP Resource List: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources What to do when a Facebook profile is private? https://osintcurio.us/2020/10/19/what-to-do-when-a-facebook-profile-is-private/ 10 Minute Tip on geolocation – part I: https://osintcurio.us/2020/11/01/ten-minute-tip-image-geolocation-part-1/ Bellingcat’s OSINT tools: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyhIDuK9jrPGwYr9DI2UncoqJQ/edit Resources on mis/disinformation: https://mediamanipulation.org Training session on how to verify images/videos by Jane Lytvynenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aMk48O3vpM&feature=youtu.be Geolocating Kim Kardashian: https://vickymochama.medium.com/how-dare-you-kim-kardashians-40th-birthday-an-investigation-766dc879eb23 Guide on how to use Optica

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mw_Osint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Technisette Sector035 Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Links to what we discussed App usage by country: https://www.applyzer.com/?mmenu=worldcharts Top sites worldwide: https://www.alexa.com/topsites OSINT technique to find Start.me page: https://twitter.com/OSINTtechniques/status/1316937466222465024 Download Win7, 8.1 and 10 (90 day trial) VM’s: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ & https://web.archive.org/web/20191226134552/https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ Sinwindie’s attack surface for the dark web: https://twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1315082663384899584 Lifting fingerprints from photos: https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1317544626425913351 Lorand Bodo’s new website & blog: https://lorandbodo.com RSS feeds for Subreddits: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1314548615071834112

This week’s guest is Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia) Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW´s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom. People in this Episode Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy) Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Nixintel (@nixintel) Sector035 (@sector035) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Links to what we discussed OSINTCurious blog post by Technisette: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/28/when-there-is-no-google-earth-or-street-view-what-can-you-do/ Blog by Matthias Wilson: SOCMINT on foreign platforms: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/04/social-media-around-the-world/ Updated browser extension by OSINTSupport: https://osint.support/chrome-extensions/2019/09/29/osint-socmint-tooling.html Google dorks to access confidential information: http

This week’s guest is Emmanuelle Welch (@frenchpi) Emmanuelle Welch is a Licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and owner of French Connection Research, a private investigative agency in Brooklyn, NY, licensed in New York and Washington, DC. She specializes in white-collar crime investigations, cross-Atlantic litigation support and OSINT analysis. People in this Episode Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Nixintel (@nixintel) Kirby Plessas (@kirbstr) John (@gumshoo) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Links to what we discussed Emmanuelle’s OSINT tools/resources start.me page for dating apps: https://start.me/p/VRxaj5/dating-apps-and-hook-up-sites-for-investigators Introduction to researching foreign influence in the US: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/14/introduction-to-researching-foreign-influence-in-the-us/ NEW Twitter Analysis framework by @sowdust: https://github.com/sowdust/tafferugli OSINT Intelligence Cycle by @sinwindie: https://www.secjuice.com/the-osi

Welcome back! We are back with a brand new episode after our one-month summer break! In this week’s episode, we catch up with the latest OSINT news, as usual! People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico Dekens (@Dutch_osintguy) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Sector035 (@Sector035) Technisette (@technisette) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) What we discussed A big thank you to all our sponsors and Patreon patrons who have been supporting us!  Learn how to create a sock puppet account for your OSINT investigations here Learn about the main differences between the old and new Facebook design here Check out this new OSINT tool, called Redditor. It’s similar to Tweetdeck but just for Reddit Need some new OSINT resources? Then check out this amazing collection Dutch's talk about leveraging Telegram for OSINT purposes Sinwindie’s attack surface for Twitter. For similar flow charts, click here Interested in detecting deep fakes? Microsoft has launched a new tool to detect them

Special Guest Inês Narciso (@IWN_LX) – Ines worked in the Portuguese Intelligence Service for 12 years. She started up doing OSINT in 2008 and later became an OSINT and online undercover operations project manager. In 2019, she joined Iscte Iul a Lisbon University where she teaches Digital Methods and conducts research on disinformation. Since then, she’s also built a company that uses OSINT to find people’s ancestors and build family trees. In her spare time, she also helps pro bono fellow journalists in Portugal and abroad in their investigations and women who have been a victim of revenge porn or intimate image abuse. People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico (@DutchOSINTGuy) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo Sector035 Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) Links to what we discussed Protecting personal privacy against unauthorized deep learning models: https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/ Search for videos across 60 platforms: https://www.peteyvid.com/ Estimate t

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Nixintel Technisette Baywolf88 Links to what we discussed https://www.instagram.com/hushpuppi/?hl=en Big phishing criminal Hushpuppi arrested in Dubai. His Instagram account was well-known for flaunting his wealth. Allowed investigators to track his movements and identify his financial assets. https://pimeyes.com/en/ Matches facial images from across the web https://keyfindings.blog/2020/07/01/saving-images-from-google-maps-and-street-view/ Getting photo sphere images from Google Maps using developer tools https://nixintel.info/osint/geolocating-mobile-phones-with-an-ip/ Gives insight on the locations of IP adresses https://twitter.com/SebMeineck/status/1281577528164003841 PimEye reaction to a recent article (https://netzpolitik.org/2020/pimeyes-face-search-company-is-abolishing-our-anonymity/), now you can’t upload a pic anymore. You can only allow PimEye access to your camera https://pskreporter.info/pskmap

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Nixintel Ginsberg5150 Special Guest: Peter King (@ibexmind) additional info: https://ibexmind.com/ Links to what we discussed https://spoonbill.io/ Shows historic profile and pinned tweet changes for Twitter accounts. https://radar.freedar.uk/VirtualRadar/desktop.html Aircraft monitoring site but includes military/drones too. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-protests-arrests-fbi-lore-elisabeth-blumenthal-george-floyd-20200617.html Good OSINT case study, using social media to ID suspect https://citizenevidence.org/2020/06/26/investigating-infrastructure-links-with-passive-dns-and-whois-data/ Explains how to use OSINT to investigate a website, very beginner friendly https://www.tracelabs.org/trace-labs-osint-vm/ Trace Labs OSINT VM https://www.sans.org/webcasts/tech-tuesday-workshop-introduction-osint-video-image-verification-115875/ Nico’s free SANS image verification work