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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. We are an OSINT-learning catalyst.
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Episodes

Episode 48: Keyword search on Instagram, Scraping Fleets, OSINTDojo, AI-generated photos, Parler searching

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://twi...

Dec 05, 202053 minSeason 2Ep. 48

Episode 47: Samuel Lolagar (OSINTGeek), FireEye VM, Dark Web, Parler, ETags, a bit of SIGINT and collecting info from Youtube videos

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/...

Dec 05, 20201 hr 4 minSeason 2Ep. 47

Episode 46: Guest Amine Ghoulidi, resources on mis- and disinformation, investigating international phone numbers, Geolocation 10-minute tip and much more!

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-i...

Nov 08, 20201 hr 3 minSeason 2Ep. 46

Episode 45: Q&A with the audience, lifting fingerprints from fotos, CONINT, understanding time stamps on social media, Google IDs and more

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.micr...

Oct 23, 20201 hr 6 minSeason 2Ep. 45

Episode 44: Guest Julia Bayer, Geolocating without Street View and Google Maps, SOCMINT on foreign social media, FOCA for OSINT, DNS research

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) Sect...

Oct 05, 202058 minSeason 2Ep. 44

Episode 43: Guest Emmanuelle Welch, Maltego for Telegram, Google Account Finder, WIPO Database, Twitter Analysis Framework

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 (@...

Oct 05, 202056 minSeason 2Ep. 43

Episode 42: New Facebook design, creating sock puppets, Redditor, OSINT on Telegram, WhatsMyName Update

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 accou...

Sep 07, 202057 minSeason 2Ep. 42

Episode 41: Special Guest Ines Narciso, video search tool Peteyvid, estimating crowd sizes, and more on facial recognition (even for dogs)

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 jo...

Jul 28, 20201 hrSeason 2Ep. 41

Episode 40: Geolocating IPs and mobile phones, PimEye, 3D reconstruction of facial images and more...

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 h ttps://keyfindings.blog/2020/07/01/saving-images-from-...

Jul 13, 20201 hr 5 minSeason 2Ep. 40

Episode 39: Ibexmind with Peter King, Twitter history, aircraft and drone monitoring, TraceLabs OSINT Virtual Machine and more...

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-lor...

Jun 30, 202055 minSeason 2Ep. 39

Ep 35: (Originally aired May 3) Guest Aliaume Leroy, a new Verification Handbook released, using birds to help geolocate and more....!

Originally aired May 3, 2020 People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Dutch_OsintGuy Nico Technisette Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Special Guest: Aliaume Leroy ( @Yaolri ) more info on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=aliaume+leroy Links to what we discussed https://www.aliseeks.com/search Good resource for recon when conducting IP infringement related work on seller that are active on AlieExpress https://twitter.com/datajournalism/status/1255106297592254465 The new verification handbook got released th...

May 26, 202056 minSeason 2Ep. 35

Ep 34: (Originally aired 19 April) Interview with the famous Arno Reuser, using UntappdScraper for checkin location data, and more

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Nico (Dutch_OsintGuy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) Sector035 John TerBush (thegumshoo) Special Guest : Arno Reuser ( @ArnoReuser ) more info on ArnoReuser.com & http://bibliography.opensourceintelligence.biz/ Links to what we discussed https://intelx.io The site hosts breach data that are easily searchable (for free)! We spoke about this in regards to its scraping of Pastebin pastes. If you have a paid account, you can access...

May 26, 202056 minSeason 2Ep. 34

Ep. 36: Interview with Jane Lytvynenko on disinfo, the "OSINT State of Mind", cropping images and facial recognition reverse searching and more!

Originally aired May 17, 20202 People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Nixintel John TerBush Rae Baker Lorand Bodo Chris Kubecka Nico Dekens Special Guest: Jane Lytvynenko ( @JaneLytv ) more info on: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko Links to what we discussed https://twitter.com/SANSInstitute/status/1260219450449633281 webinar SANS @MIC with Dutch_Osintguy talking about the “OSINT State of Mind” https://twitter.com/msfrpy/status/1258467675065499650 Great tip by Musafir.py showing...

May 26, 20201 hr 9 minSeason 2Ep. 26

Episode 33: We speak with guest Jan Tegze from sourcing.games, analytic thinking, beyond EXIF in photos, and more...

People in this Episode Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Technisette Special Guest : Jan Tegze ( @jantegze ) more info on sourcing.games Links to what we discussed Training yourself how to be an analytical thinker https://medium.com/@raebaker/training-yourself-to-be-an-analytical-thinker-476bdb7e7c99 Related to having an Analytical mind this shows analytical techniques in action through real cases https://study.sagepub.c...

Apr 19, 202055 minSeason 2Ep. 33

Episode 32: Chris Poulter from OSINTCombine talks tools and debuts one during the webcast! Also: disinfo during the COVID-19 crisis and more...

People in this Episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) Special guest: Chris Poulter (@osintcombine) and more info on https://www.osintcombine.com/ Links to what we discussed: OSINT Combine’s talk at the #sansosintsummit https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-summit/archives/file/summit-archive-1582052110.pdf Nixintel spots fake Twitter accounts blog https://nixintel.inf...

Apr 04, 20201 hr 3 minSeason 2Ep. 32

Episode 31: Jeff Lomas of BleuBloodHound, MWOsint demos the MSFT video indexer and more...

People in this Episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Dutch_Osintguy Matthias Wilson (MwOsint) Nixintel Sector035 Special Guest: Jeff Lomas ( @BleuBloodHound ) Links to what we discussed: Jeff Lomas talked about his blog on cell tower info, DFIR and OSINT https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/19/making-sense-of-osint-cell-tower-data-for-dfir/ People being monitored by the geotagged social media trough Echosec https://twitter.com/KarlSwannie/status/1233092121822978048 An semi automated website for lookups ...

Mar 09, 20201 hr 8 minSeason 2Ep. 21

Episode 30, A brief chat about WhatsApp, a new OSINT-dedicated Linux build and more..

People in this Episode Ginsberg5150 Nixintel Sector035 Links to what we discussed WhatsApp invite debacle: https://twitter.com/JordanWildon/status/1230829082662842369 Nixintel his short blogpost about it: https://nixintel.info/osint/whatsapp-dorks-and-tricks/ Open source maps and satellite imagery used to verify claims about Chinese human rights abuses https://twitter.com/bayer_julia/status/1229441850781642754 A Pastebin bot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leak_scavenger (by https://twitter.com/...

Mar 09, 202023 minSeason 2Ep. 30

Episode 29: Interview with OSINTTechniques, Google dorking SSIDs, a look at the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash using OSINT and more

People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Dutch_Osintguy Sector035 And our special guest: Ritu Gill aka OsintTechniques Links to what we discussed Tweet by Gonzo about searching SSID’s with a Google dork https://twitter.com/gonzos_int/status/1222541952413065216?s=11 Another good name check lookup website https://twitter.com/dutch_osintguy/status/1223688324034060292 Good read about deanonymizing TOR circuits https://twitter.com/x0rzkov/status/1224380928094613505 Guest OSINT Curious blog by Jeff Lomas ...

Feb 20, 20201 hr 1 minSeason 2Ep. 29

Episode 28: Bitcoin with Bellingcat's Brenna Smith, Finding who is running Wordpress even behind Cloudflare, and more

People in this Episode: Ginsberg5150 Dutch_Osintguy Sector035 Kirby Plessas And our special guest: Brenna Smith Links to what we discussed: Archive of Brenna’s CryptOSINT newsletters can be found here https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c435f53a5568f7951404c8a38&id=7f8ca9c380 Our own technisette had a beautiful and healthy baby! Congratulations! https://twitter.com/technisette/status/1219631571851980801 Introduction to OSINT (video) Micah was very lucky to meet and get to work with the...

Jan 29, 20201 hr 9 minSeason 2Ep. 28

Episode 27 - OSINT Curious is a year old! And we have Vortimo's Roelof Temmingh!

Webcast 20200112 – #27 People in this Episode Dutch_Osintguy Ginsberg5150 Micah Hoffman Sector035 And our special guest: Roelof Temmingh (VortimoTech) Links to what we discussed Aware online blogs: Searching Telegram via location – https://www.aware-online.com/en/search-for-telegram-groups-based-on-location/ and creating your own flowcharts – https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-flowcharts/ Micah’s OSINT MindMap – https://webbreacher.com/2018/07/12/osint-map/ OSINT : Using Certi...

Jan 17, 20201 hr 2 minSeason 2Ep. 27

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 th...

Dec 02, 201951 minSeason 1Ep. 25

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/118790814522335...

Nov 10, 201958 minSeason 1Ep. 24

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/11834776895266...

Oct 23, 201955 minSeason 1Ep. 23

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-gath...

Oct 08, 20191 hr 17 minSeason 1Ep. 22

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 s...

Sep 30, 201954 minSeason 1Ep. 21

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.t...

Sep 11, 201951 minSeason 1Ep. 20

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...

Sep 01, 20191 hr 17 minSeason 1Ep. 19

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://osin...

Aug 07, 20191 hr 4 minSeason 1Ep. 17

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...

Jul 22, 201950 minSeason 1Ep. 17

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 ac...

Jul 16, 20191 hr 1 minSeason 1Ep. 16
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