On February 17 2021 a large oil slick reached Israeli beaches with no clear origin. The spill affected over 90% of Israel coasts and was by all means an ecological disaster which would take years to fully recover from. Investigations where immediately launched, rumours begun spreading, and wrong allegations where made. Then, three weeks after […]
OSINTEditor Sunday Briefing: How to Present O...
This weekend was a special win for autocrats in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Moscow, with Hong Kong and Russian elections predictably going in favour of the establishment parties. Additionally, a new tool to analyse and present OSINT maps on multiple frames at once is introduced, and a special project from OSINTEditor was publicly launched this […]
Tanker War 2.0
The first “Tanker War” At the height of the Iran-Iraq war in 1984, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq lead a coalition which included Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in a series of attacks against Iranian commercial vessels tied to its oil industry. These vessels were mainly tankers. Iran did not take long to reply in kind, starting […]
OSINTEditor Sunday Briefing: Archiving and An...
Make sure to read the 5 September edition of the Sunday Briefing if you missed it – it will explain the concept and the ‘why’ behind the briefing. OSINTEditor Sunday Briefing: Archiving and Analysing Disinformation Receipts This week details archiving on the Wayback Machine, finding clues in Metadata from Bellingcat, and analysing a chain of […]
OSINTEditor Sunday Briefing: Identifying and ...
Welcome to OSINTEditor Sunday Briefing, a new weekly OSINT newsletter. As this is the inaugural edition of the newsletter, a brief introduction is warranted. The goal of OSINTEditor is to deliver cutting edge OSINT information and methodology in an open-access format. Moreover, there is an aim to combine Open-Source Intelligence with the power of geography […]
C-SAR Eye – Sentinel-1 data analysis tool
Powered by the impressive Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, C-SAR Eye (link to the tool) tries to make Sentinel-1 satellites data analysis easier by focusing on changes in the captured C-SAR radar data. The tool allows users to customise a time frame for the data to be analysed and setup thresholds so to isolate changes […]
In-Depth Research into Youtube Videos
If you are researching a youtube video there are also several research tools available online for obtaining more information about the video. This post will describe how to do more in-depth research of a video. The Research Tools This next part will address some of the tools that are available for researching videos online. What […]
Overview of Corporate Research Articles
This article provides an overview for conducting corporate research and is intended as an index of all of our individual articles and guides on different aspects of corporate research. We will address where to find information on a company and what kinds of questions you can consider answering with your research. Basic Research The initial […]
How to Find Influential Actors in a Corporati...
For every corporation there are certain individuals that have disproportionate influence. Many researchers make the mistake of focusing too much on the board of directors, but this ignores other key players that can be a source of great insight. This article will explain how to identify “corporate insiders” and influential investors by using the Securities […]
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 […]