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 […]
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 “regular” internet. If there is a phrase on the open net , such as […]
Corporate Research on the Deep Web
Why the “Deep Web” is Important for Corporate Research When you try to research a company you likely will first see the information that the company itself puts out into the Internet, like its website, social media, or press statements. With this information it is hard to know what you can trust. In addition, relevant […]
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 […]
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 C-SAR interference analysis. Intro
This article wants to be some kind of introduction to the technique first discovered and exposed by Harel Dan in his Medium post from 2018 (highly recommended read) which involves using the publicly available SENTINEL-1 satellites data to detect and locate powerful sources of radio frequencies in (some of) the C band. We will also […]
5Ghz Interference Tracker
5GIT is a tool developed in Google Earth Engine that uses SENTINEL-1 satellite data to isolate strong radio signal sources operating close to the 5.5 Ghz frequency on which the satellites CSAR sensors operate (CSAR stands for C band Synthetic Aperture Radar).