The OSINT Curious Project

By OSINTCurious

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 peop... more

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December 02, 2019Episode 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
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November 10, 2019Episode 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
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October 23, 2019Episode #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/
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October 08, 2019Episode 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
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September 30, 2019Episode 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
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55min
September 11, 2019Episode 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
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September 01, 2019Episode 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/
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August 07, 2019 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/
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July 22, 2019Episode 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.
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51min
July 16, 2019Episode 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!
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How many episodes does The OSINT Curious Project have?

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