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  • Episode 25 - Breaches, TikTok, Vortimo and more!

    Find all linked material here: https://osintcurio.us/webcast-20191201-25/

    People in this Episode

    • Micah
    • Dutch_Osintguy
    • Kirby
    • Sector035

      • Links to what we discussed

      • Tips on how to interpret leak data https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/11/06/massive-white-supremacist-message-board-leak-how-to-access-and-interpret-the-data/
      • A new blog from MwOsint on investigating right wing extremists https://keyfindings.blog/2019/12/01/researching-right-wing-extremism-in-central-europe/
      • An Emmy for the Bellingcat documentary https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/11/two-dutch-documentaries-win-international-emmy-awards/
      • Firstdraft article on identifying bots https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/the-not-so-simple-science-of-social-media-bots/
      • Blogpost by OsintCombine on Foursquare https://www.osintcombine.com/post/foursquare-the-hidden-osint-gem
      • Tutorial about Vortimo https://vortimo.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/vortimo-tutorial/
      • LawFare Podcast https://twitter.com/kirbstr/status/1198804496660385793
      • Diving into the TikTok API https://twitter.com/Sector035/status/1198692966333865987
      • Automatic transcription of podcasts in iOS 13 https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1194781978307911680 and a direct link: https://www.cultofmac.com/647598/search-podcast-transcripts-ios-13/
      • Political ads information on Snapchat https://twitter.com/carljackmiller/status/1195306436529721345
      • Tutorial on TikTok investigations https://www.secjuice.com/osint-investigations-on-tiktok/
      • Small tutorial on the tool ‘bulkextractor’ https://digitalforensicstips.com/2019/11/using-bulk-extractor-for-quick-osint-wins/
      • An SEO tool to analyze search results https://app.samuelschmitt.com
      • A NYT investigation into the bombing of civilian targets in Syria https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000006818506/russia-bombs-syria-civlians.htm
      • The item we started this episode with was a tweet about interesting Google dorks. Feel free to share your favourite Google dork on Twitter using the hashtag #osintcurious. For example: https://twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1191493752113766401

        • Self Promotion

        • OSINTCurious is setting up a webshop https://www.redbubble.com/people/osint-curious
        • Micah will be teaching at the SANS CDI (Washington, DC) event in December, anyone taking a class at the event can participate in the Tracelabs Missing Persons CTF! https://www.sans.org/event/cyber-defense-initiative-2019/bonus-sessions/19390/#bonus-box
        • Micah will also be at the SANS OSINT Summit in Feb 2020 https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2020 – Use code OSINTPOD20 to get a special price of $175 on you SANS Open-Source Intelligence Summit registration
        • Kirby has a class for investigators in January in Jacksonville FL https://www.plessas.net/events
          • 51 min
        • Episode 24 - TikTok investigation techniques, more on Instagram and the new IntelTechniques Book! And more!
          People in this Episode:
          • Ginsberg5150
          • Sector035
          • Technisette
          • Micah
          • Dutch_Osintguy

            • Links to what we discussed
            • New OSINT Curious logo! https://twitter.com/OsintCurious/status/1187624103231967232
            • Tiktok
              • https://twitter.com/OsintCurious/status/1187624103231967232
              https://twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1189364481085890562
              https://twitter.com/IntelTechniques/status/1188493096499105792
            • Instagram
              • https://twitter.com/Sector035/status/1187479840233885696
              https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1187908145223352320
            • LinkedIn – https://www.osintcombine.com/post/corporate-profiling-advanced-linkedin-searching-more
            • OSINT4Good – https://twitter.com/Europol/status/1187657027050528768
            • ISIS Attack map – https://twitter.com/TomaszRolbiecki/status/1188849963138191361
            • AirBnB Scam – https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb
            • Michael Bazzell’s new book – https://inteltechniques.com/book1.html
            • Firefox customization for OSINT – https://blogpirate.net/2019/10/31/how-to-make-firefox-an-essential-tool-for-osint/
            • Vortimo b3 – http://vortimo.com/beta3/
            • Using 10-K and public business data in OSINT – https://www.managerisks.net/new-blog/2019/10/29/season-11-or-so-you-want-to-be-an-open-source-researcher
            • https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understanding-bert/ nlp processing Bert by google brings new dimension to searching google
              • Self Promotion

              Micah – At the SANS CDI (Washington, DC) event in December, anyone taking a class at the event can participate in the Tracelabs Missing Persons CTF! https://www.sans.org/event/cyber-defense-initiative-2019/bonus-sessions/19390/#bonus-box

              58 min
            • Episode #23 - The talented Rae Baker, Cheatsheets and free tools galore!
              People in this Episode:
              • Kirby
              • Micah
              • Dutch_Osintguy
              • Ginsberg5150
              • Sector035
              • And our special guest: Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)


                • Links to what we discussed:
                • https://www.dfir.training/resources/downloads/cheatsheets-infographics 
                • https://www.duplichecker.com/free-tools.php
                • https://webrobots.io/
                • https://viewdns.info/ 
                • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234
                • https://www.torbox.ch/
                • https://twitter.com/evaristegal0is/status/1183639242951532544
                • https://twitter.com/OsintSupport/status/1183477689526697986
                • https://www.osintcombine.com/post/connecting-the-dots-social-engagement-clusters-on-facebook-instagram
                • https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1183741960919629825
                • https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/10/15/a-beginners-guide-to-flight-tracking/ 


                  • Shameless Self Promotion:
                  • https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious 
                  • https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1182551320668135424
                  • https://www.sans.org/event/cyber-defense-initiative-2019/bonus-sessions/19390/#bonus-box
                  • https://www.facebook.com/events/2665903510097489/
                  • https://www.facebook.com/events/1627661944034609/
                  • https://medium.com/@sector035
                  • https://www.hackerhalted.com
                  • https://osintcurio.us/events/
                    • 56 min
                  • Episode 22: Lorando Bodo talks OSINT for counter-terrorism, Extreme Privacy, OSINT for Maritime Intelligence and more!
                    People in this Episode:
                    • Micah
                    • Dutch_Osintguy
                    • Ginsberg5150
                    • Kirby (voice only)
                    • And our special OSINT Curious member and guest : Lorand Bodo (@lorandbodo)
                      • Links to what we discussed:
                      • https://gijn.org/citizen-investigation-guide/
                      • Micah – Reading Bazzell’s Extreme Privacy book. https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html
                      • OSINT Curious Instagram Search second blog post – https://osintcurio.us/2019/10/01/searching-instagram-part-2/
                      • https://medium.com/@raebaker/osint-on-the-ocean-maritime-intelligence-gathering-techniques-2ee39e554fe1
                      • https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1177582383069061124?s=21
                      • https://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Digital-Footprint-without-ebook/dp/B00MJD7AN6
                      • Links from Lorand’s interview:
                        • Terrorism and Radicalisation Research Dashboard: https://start.me/p/OmExgb/terrorism-radicalisation-research-dashboard
                        Tech Against Terrorism: https://techagainstterrorism.org
                        https://Twitter.com/techvsterrorism (@techvsterrorism)
                        Press release: Launching an updated version of Jihadology.net: https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/2019/04/10/press-release-10th-april-2019-launching-an-updated-version-of-jihadology-to-limit-terrorist-exploitation-of-the-site/
                        Press release: Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP): https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/2019/06/27/press-release-tech-against-terrorism-awarded-grant-by-the-government-of-canada-to-build-terrorist-content-analytics-platform/
                        Tech Against Terrorism Podcast: https://www.techagainstterrorism.fm/
                        Self Promotion:
                        • https://tweakers.net/partners/meet-ups2019/968/watisopensourceintelligence/ Dutch OSINT Guy at tweakers xl privacy & security summit November 2, 2019
                        • SANS SEC487 upcoming classes in Sydney, Atlanta, Washington DC – https://sans.org/sec487
                        • Kirby is speaking at IAFCINY this week and at Osmosiscon next week
                          • 1 hr 17 min
                        • Episode 21: Live demo of mindmapping with Datascraper and Casefile and more...
                          Webcast 20190922 – #21

                          People in this Episode
                          • Micah
                          • Dutch_OsintGuy
                            • Links to things we discussed:
                            • Tetris Challenge gives insight in governmental gear
                            • Airbnb – Reverse OSINT with Your Public Information
                            • Youtube tests user profile cards that show users comment history
                            • Blog on OSINT and psychology and bias
                            • Twitter thread with step by step OSINT methodology on identifying a location with detained protesters in Xinjiang
                              • Live demo Dutch_OsintGuy & Micah

                              Live demo shows how one can use Mindmapping software to keep track of your investigative steps and thoughts. Second part of the live demo shows how you can grab data with Instant Datascraper and visualize this data with Maltego Casefile.

                              Live demo shows this software:

                              • Xmind mindmapping
                              • Instant Datascraper
                              • Maltego Casefile
                                • Self Promotion:
                                • Micah – SANS SEC487 trainings all over the world
                                • Dutch_OsintGuy – Infosecurity.nl conference 30 & 31 Oct
                                  • 55 min
                                • Episode 20: Special guest Somdev Sangwan, Facebook dating, researching photos from a tweet, and more!
                                  People in this Episode:
                                  • Kirby
                                  • DutchOSINTGuy
                                  • Technisette (Voice only)
                                  • Micah
                                  • And our special guest: Somdev Sangwan (@s0md3v on Twitter)
                                    • https://s0md3v.github.io/
                                    https://github.com/s0md3v
                                    Links to things we discussed:
                                    • https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Python-Hard-Way-Introduction/dp/0134692888/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3QYDZ0CFODOKV&keywords=learn+python+3+the+hard+way&qid=1567967349&s=books&sprefix=learn+pytho%2Cstripbooks%2C282&sr=1-3 Book on how to learn Python 3 Prgramming
                                    • https://www.truecaller.com/ Looking up Phone numbers
                                    • https://www.applyzer.com/?mmenu=worldcharts Comparing populair apps
                                    • Facebook dating…now with Secret Crush! – https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/
                                    • Nico – Tip: Another great Chrome extension by @OsintSupport LinkedIn Email reverse Lookup osint.support/#linkedin
                                    • Results of our OSINTCurious online survey?
                                    • Trump tweeting Iran photo and then people doing research to find out what satellite it came from – https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1167730897384333312 & https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2019/09/image-from-trump-tweet-identified-as.html
                                    • DerbyCon OSINT CTF – Our own Josh Huff competed – https://twitter.com/sevillage/status/1170390783859539970
                                    • Bazzell writing 7th edition of OSINT book – https://twitter.com/IntelTechniques/status/1167446287228100609 “Writing has begun…The 7th edition of my #OSINT book will be released in early 2020.
                                      • Self Promotion:
                                      • Micah – SANS OSINT Summit in Virginia, USA, February 2020. CFP open now (link on the right side of page). Tickets on sale too. https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2020 LE 30% discount OSINTLAW20
                                      • Kirby will be speaking at Osmosiscon in October: https://www.osmosiscon.com/
                                      • Dutch_osintguy will be speaking at infosecurity.nl in October
                                        • 52 min
                                      • Episode 19: Guest "InfosecSherpa", enumerating phone numbers, AI and social media and more...
                                        People in this episode:
                                        • Ginsberg5150
                                        • DutchOSINTGuy
                                        • Sector035 (Voice only)
                                        • Kirby (first half only)
                                        • And our special guest: Tracy Maleeff (@InfoSecSherpa on Twitter)

                                          • https://nuzzel.com/InfoSecSherpa

                                          https://medium.com/@InfoSecSherpa

                                          Links to things we discussed:
                                          • https://www.martinvigo.com/email2phonenumber/ – a tool to enumerate possible phone numbers
                                          • https://ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org – how machine learning was used to sift through social media
                                          • https://github.com/twintproject/twint – new version of Twint
                                          • https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/ – finding fires from space
                                          • https://darknetlive.com – darknet markets/forums etc – GONZO osint.team
                                          • https://yippy.com – AI OSINT Cluster search engine
                                          • https://sphere.tenebris.cc/index.html – a privacy aware browser
                                          • https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/19/making-sense-of-osint-cell-tower-data-for-dfir/ Guest blog about Cell towers and how to map out the information
                                          • https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/22/the-new-facebook-graph-search-part-1/ Facebook graphs explained part 1
                                          • https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/22/the-new-facebook-graph-search-part-2/ Facebook graphs explained part 2
                                          • https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/15/json-and-common-web-encodings-demystified/ – Most common web encodings explained
                                            • Self Promotion:
                                            • Blogpost by Sector035 and MwOsint about tracing a phone scam https://keyfindings.blog/2019/08/25/unravelling-the-norton-scam-final-chapter/
                                              • 1 hr 17 min
                                            • Episode 18: Guest "OSINTEssentials", SXSWi, "How to Search" and more!

                                              Show notes at https://osintcurio.us/webcast-2019072...


                                              People in this episode:


                                              - Ginsberg5150

                                              - DutchOSINTGuy

                                              - Technisette (Voice only)

                                              - Sector035 (Voice only)

                                              - And our special guest: Osintessentials a.k.a Eoghan Sweeney


                                              Links to things we discussed:

                                              - We have a new Patreon https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious

                                              - We have applied to be a part of sxsw! Please visit https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/96637 and vote for us to do a live webcast recording at SXSW 2020!

                                              - Lorand’s Article https://osintcurio.us/2019/07/15/how-...

                                              - S0mdev made a great bitcoin visualisation tool https://github.com/s0md3v/Orbit

                                              - https://gofindwho.com/ osint resources

                                              - https://web.br.de/interaktiv/winnti/e... great article and step by step OSINT research article about a hacker group targeting German industry

                                              - More tools added to https://intelx.io/ among it a new CSE by Francesco Poldi

                                              - Instagram Explorer helps explore Instagram pages https://www.osintcombine.com/instagra...

                                              - https://skimagram.com/ instagram tool

                                              - Shoutout to the Bellingcat podcast https://overcast.fm/itunes1472354896/...


                                              Self Promotion:

                                              - Dutch_osintguy will be speaking both days at https://www.infosecurity.nl/?lang=EN 30-31 Oct 2019 

                                              - Ginsberg5150 will be speaking at Hacker Halted 10-11 Oct 2019

                                              - Sector035 will be holding a workshop on ADS-B at https://www.disruptionlab.org/citizen... and will be part of the live Quiztime crew at https://gijc2019.org/

                                              1 hr 5 min
                                            • Episode 17: Special Edition interview with the Trace Labs team after completion of the Global CTF

                                              Webcast no.17 recorded on 2019/07/21   

                                              People in this episode: 

                                              • Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) 
                                              • Ginsberg5150 
                                              • Sector035 (Voice only) 
                                              • Kirby Plessas 

                                                • Special Guests from Trace Labs    

                                                • Adrian Korn    
                                                • James Liolios      
                                                • Robert Sell  

                                                  • Links to things we discussed: 

                                                  In this special episode of the OSINT Curious webcast we interviewed three people from the Trace Labs organization that conducts regional and global online, OSINT Capture The Flag (CTF) contests. 

                                                  Audience and Trace Labs member Rae wrote a blog post describing her experiences with the Global Online CTF: https://medium.com/@raebaker/finding-... 

                                                  The OSINT Curious Project has applied to do a live webcast at the SXSW conference in 2020. Stay tuned to our social media and web site so that you can help get us there! 

                                                  We just began a Patreon campaign (https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious) where you can help support our Project.

                                                  51 min
                                                • Episode 16: news about Trace Labs CTF, reverse search for pixellated images, Intelx.io updates and CyberChef demo!

                                                  Webcast no.16 recorded on 2019/07/14

                                                  (We record live every other Sunday! Join us! Find the link at Osintcurio.us!)

                                                  In episode 16 of the OSINTCurious webcast we discuss:

                                                  People in this episode:

                                                  •     Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher)
                                                  •     Ginsberg5150
                                                  •     Sector035 (Voice only)

                                                    • Links to things we discussed:

                                                        TraceLabs.org – Global online OSINT CTF

                                                        The OSINT.Team site is back up (https://osint.team) with 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) and SSO (Single Sign On) using either a Twitter or a Github account. A Patreon account exists for donations to keep this resource going (patreon.com/user?u=21892179)

                                                        @Y_vdw – Blog post on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram searching https://medium.com/@luga/finding-pict...

                                                        @s0md3v is a regular attendee of the webcast. He posted about reverse web search for pixelated images – https://medium.com/@somdevsangwan/deb...

                                                        BBC Africa OSINT on the Sudan massacre (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT IN THE VIDEO) – https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/...

                                                        Micah was on the Recorded Future/Cyber Wire podcast and spoke about OSINT and the OSINTCurious project- https://www.recordedfuture.com/podcas...

                                                        David Mashburn (@d_mashburn) gave a talk on “OSINT: Not Just Offensive” at the SANS Blue Team Summit recently – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIte... TraceLabs.org –

                                                        Listener Chris J. (@rattis) asked about our take on YouTube enforcing its restrictions on hosting “hacking” videos.

                                                        The IntelX.io site released some updates (v4) to their OSINT tools that are becoming similar to IntelTechniques’s old page.

                                                        Micah demoed using the amazing (and free!) CyberChef tool (https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/) to decode Base64 encoded content and extract selectors from text

                                                        The 2020 SANS OSINT summit has been announced in Virgina, USA in February 2020 – https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summ...

                                                        Some Dutch OSINTians (their word…not ours 🙂 ) had the second #Docon in The Netherlands recently. They are going to try to make the next one open to the public https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/st...

                                                        Listener questions!


                                                    Self Promotion:

                                                        Sector035 is indexing the https://medium.com/week-in-osint posts.

                                                        Ginsberg gave shout outs to SecKC, OSINT.Team, and OSINTCurio.us

                                                        Micah will be in California for a bunch of time in the coming weeks teaching his SANS SEC487 OSINT class. Spaces are still available to join him in person!

                                                    1 hr 2 min

                                                  About The OSINT Curious Project

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                                                  The OSINT Curious Project is a source of quality, actionable, Open Source Intelligence news, original blogs, instructional videos, and a bi-weekly webcast/podcast. Most of all, we want to inspire people to look outside of their OSINT-comfort zones and pursue their OSINT passions. We try to keep people curious about exploring web applications for bits of information or trying out new techniques to access important OSINT data.