How communications and OSINT overlap in the midst of a 21st Century Protest.
OPEN SOURCE WARFARE – The stark reality of DI
Been thinking about if to write this article for a long time, pondering the benefits versus the potential costs of what I’m about to write. Everything that will be illustrated here is available in the public domain and most of it has been so for well over a decade now. Been battled on this as […]
Socioeconomics and OSINT – A Working Example
Behind the Economics: Social Uprisings On 9 June 2020 hundreds of protestors in Seattle, Washington had filled the Seattle City Hall main entrance, setting up a community microphone in the dim lights as people, each representing a unique voice and concern, nervously milled the hall, now in their third week of protesting. As the clock […]
Offensive OSINT: Emulating an advanced attack...
Introduction OSINT as a discipline has gained a lot of traction over the past few years and it is clear we have started to formalize some of the more known techniques and concepts found within OSINT. We have also started to see more OSINT related courses and certifications, for instance from SANS. We have also […]
Genesis of coronavirus related Fake News
On March 23 the Jerusalem Post published an article titled : “Israeli doctor in Italy: We no longer help those over 60” The whole article is based on the report from an Israeli M.D. Gai Peleg working in Parma (Northern Italy). Here the portion of the article relevant to the headline “Peleg said that, from […]
Geolocating a video, a basic tutorial
One of the main purposes of OSINTEditor is to get more people into the world of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and more importantly get them being constructive. Geolocation is among the most popular OSINT techniques and in this article I will try to guide you through some basic but fundamental concepts, tools and techniques. The […]
Yemen – IHL violations in 2019
With the recently published “Letter dated 27 January 2020 from the Panel of Experts on Yemen addressed to the President of the Security Council“ we can finally have a better picture, at least one from less biased eyes, of what has happened in Yemen across 2019. The “Letter” is published every year in late January […]
5GIT – Demo research
How to use it To illustrate some of the tool workings and in general suggest ways to use it in your researches, I’m going to guide you through a fast research over the Persian Gulf area, specifically we will check if as consequence of the August 17 and September 14 attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, […]
SENTINEL-1 and the Seas of Japan
While checking for Patriot activity in South Korea I stumbled on the interesting increase of interferences in the seas surrounding Japan. This pushed me to investigate a little further to isolate the potential sources for them. HyÅ«ga class helicopter destroyers The vessels (2) which became operational in the late first decade of 2000 saw the […]
SENTINEL-1 and The Mediterranean Sea
A research into radar caused interferences over the Mediterranean Sea as revealed by SENTINEL-1 C-SAR data.