The OSINT Curious Project

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 profile prior to OSINT investigations Disinformation/Misinformation Our favorite interviewees and blog posts from OSINT Curious’ 2020 Thank you for listening, watching, and reading our content in 2020! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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 some AI generated faces? Check out this massive archive but keep in mind they’re easily recognisable: https://generated.photos/faces Great Twitter thread on scraping Fleets without triggering the ‘read’ notification: https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1329935540049817600 Great resource for international geolocation and winning the GeoGuessr.com game: https://geotips.net/ There’s a new OSINT project, called OSINTDojo that you might want to check out: https://www.osintdojo.com/ Wanna view all tweets from one account? Then check out this tool: https://nitter.net/ Protect your identity by creating an AI-generated photo of yourself: https://generated.photos/anonymizer# Self Promotion Ritu will be teaching the SANS SEC487 OSINT course with Micah in December. Look at https://www.sans.org/event/cyber-defense-initiative-2020-live-online/course/open-source-intelligence-gathering for details. Nico will also be on the https://zolder.io/category/zoldersessions/. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/ Tool to collect valuable info from YouTube videos: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/ Lorand’s new blog post explains how to construct powerful search queries: https://www.lorandbodo.com/blog/constructing-searchqueries-osint Curated dark web resources for OSINT by MidaSearch: https://midasearch.org/dark-web/ Thoughts about sockpuppet accounts for OSINT: https://www.aaroncti.com/lets-talk-about-sockpuppet-accounts/ Self Promotion Matthias and Samuel are preparing for the German OSINT conference. More info here: https://gosintcon.de Micah and John are co-chairs of the SANS OSINT Summit, a free 2-day OSINT conference in February 2021 (https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2021/) and are looking for presenters and attendees! DutchOSINTGuy is proud of his SANS SEC537 Practical OSINT Class (https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/practical-osint-analysis-and-automation/). Registration is open for those classes at significant discount. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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 Optical Character Recognition: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/24/screentranslator-is-an-open-source-tool-that-can-translate-text-from-images/ Finding connections between entities based on text: https://jantegze.medium.com/how-to-find-out-who-owns-my-data-d0c7984ae20f Investigate international phone numbers: https://www.secjuice.com/phone-numbers-investigation-the-open-source-way/ RIAA GitHub projects for downloading YouTube videos https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-github-projects-used-for-downloading-youtube-videos/ Lorand’s blog on how to search social media: https://www.lorandbodo.com/blog/social-media-search-strategies Christina Letaki & OSINTGeek’s blog on combining intelligence disciplines: https://osintgeek.de/fcihi/blog/index.html and much more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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 Download CONINT presentations here: https://conint.io/2020downloads Understanding time stamps on social media: https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1314007636036259842 Update on WeVerify: https://twitter.com/WeVerify/status/1317548452784578561 Data scraping with Google Sheets: https://tompatrickjarvis.medium.com/data-scraping-with-google-sheets-to-assist-journalism-and-osint-tutorial-4f490d0dd5c4 Blog post on pivoting and researching info: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/16/where-is-leonardos-car-using-osint-to-trace-vehicles/ Retrieve info about Google account &activity: https://tools.epieos.com/google-account.php Keeping grid on Google IDs: https://sector035.nl/articles/keeping-a-grip-on-google-ids and much more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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: https://benjaminstrick.com/dear-x-your-staff-passwords-numbers-and-confidential-data-is-on-google/ Blog post by Nixintel: https://nixintel.info/osint/do-dns-records-prove-that-jim-watkins-is-q/ Blog post by Rae Baker: https://medium.com/@raebaker/using-foca-for-osint-document-metadata-analysis-6745c8d709fa Search for emojis: https://www.fastemoji.com/ Update by Telegram: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1311591571498971136 2020 OSINT tools & resources handbook by @i_intelligence: https://i-intelligence.eu/resources/osint-toolkit FREE online investigative training course for journalists: https://twitter.com/KnightCenterUT/status/1312508586216497153 Create your own bookmarks database: https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-database-with-bookmarks/ Thread on how to investigate websites: https://twitter.com/aware_online/status/1308312883248467975 How discover relationships between websites using Maltego: https://www.maltego.com/blog/tracing-internet-relationships-with-maltego/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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 (@thegumshoo) 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-osint-intelligence-cycle-part-i-planning-and-direction/ Maltego Transform for Telegram: https://twitter.com/noneprivacy/status/1304357985297346560?s=21 Using R to find stories in financial publicly available data: https://medium.com/@itoufexi/how-i-used-the-companies-house-streaming-api-to-find-a-newsworthy-story-a96d787955b2 How hackers can find sensitive information in your photos: https://medium.com/digital-marketing-lab/subtle-information-hackers-find-in-the-background-of-your-social-media-photos-938ec1876246 Interesting and detailed case study about what can be found with someone’s passport number: https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram Google Account Finder: https://tools.epieos.com/google-account.php Best investigative podcasts: https://gijn.org/2020/09/09/a-global-tour-of-top-investigative-podcasts-the-2020-edition/ Call for proposals for ConINT (@conint)_io: https://twitter.com/CONINT_io/status/1306676769718706181 Database of industrial designs data: https://twitter.com/navlys_/status/1306333649877504000 How to use industrial designs data for OSINT: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/05/03/using-the-wipo-ip-portal-for-osint/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support

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 Here’s a great thread about some of the most popular dark net markets. Get free and daily updates about new dark net sites Update about PimEye – a facial search engine Wanna track ‘dictators’? Check out this website that tracks aircraft associated with specific countries New updates for SentinelHub Also new updates for WhatsMyName – a username search engine developed by Micah in collaboration with OSINTCombine and many others.  Search for 393+ million US court records on JudyRecords Practice OSINT and work on real cases. Tracelabs has announced monthly OSINT Search Party CTFs! Self Promotion Micah will be at the OSINT Symposium in Australia and OSMOSISCon in October Rae will be presenting at the Bsides conference in Copenhagen on 18/19 September Lisette will be presenting at OSMOSISCon in October – check out her new website too --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osintcurious/support