Intro Note: If you are technically knowledgable in cyber defence and offence, you can read the original research into the Antlion campaign from Symantecβs Threat Hunter Team; or listen to The CyberWireβs Research Saturday Podcast with Symantec. As these are technical sources, my goal is stay non-technical and offer the key takeaways for the general public; especially insight into […]
OSINTEditor Sunday Briefing: 24 October
This week in the Sunday Briefing, tools to research terrorism and radicalisation, techniques on investigating the rising, and leading, social media platform TikTok, and a discussion on the importance of ethics relating to a politically charged attempt at prosecuting a journalist. (Main image: The source code for the OSINT Editor site. Oops, I am a […]
How to Investigate a Company’s Website
The purpose of this post is to identify ways of getting more information about a company by researching its website. This post will address how to find the identities of people that own or manage a company website, get more information about them, learn about changes that occurred in a company over time, and find […]
Enhance Corporate Investigations by Web Scrap...
Editor’s Note: this post presumes that the reader has at least a passing knowledge of the programming languages Python and HTML. If this does not apply to you, sorry, you may not enjoy reading this. Consider looking at the crash courses on Python and HTML at Python For Beginners and Beginners’ Guide to HTML. This […]
Deep Net, Open Net, and the Dark Net
One can easily write at length to describe the differences between the deep net, dark net, and the open net, but they can also be summed up simply as follows. OPEN NET The open net is what you would call the βregularβ internet. If there is a phrase on the open net , such as […]
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 […]