Osint Me Tricky Thursday #4 – Website OSINT
Tricky Thursday is back and today we are looking at website-focused OSINT.
Matt
Admin Admin, Part 1: From responsible disclosure to a prison cell
Here is the first instalment of a remarkable, sad, unbelievable yet true story of a guy I met through the infosec community on Twitter.
Alberto Daniel Hill (@ADanielHill) is a cyber security professional from Uruguay and what he is about to discuss here might disturb you…
CAB seized 6.000 BTC (ca. €52m)… or did they?!
Discussing the press coverage of the alleged confiscation of Bitcoin by CAB versus what I think really happened…
Coronavirus and disinformation warfare
Examples of Russian sponsored coronavirus disinformation efforts
Right wing extremism in Ireland – tracing its digital footprint with The Beacon
How strong and organised is the Irish right wing extremism? Journalists from The Beacon shed some light on the online existence of far right groups in Ireland.
How recruiters use OSINT and how it impacts jobseekers – an interview with Rose Farrell
Today I decided to talk to somebody who not only uses OSINT professionally for recruitment, but is also very passionate about digital privacy and security, technology, IT and information security in general. Meet Rose Farrell.
OSINT resources for tracking the spread of coronavirus
Here’s a list of useful resources for monitoring the coronavirus outbreak, from live maps, dashboards, spreadsheets with stats and FAQs.
Osint Me Tricky Thursday #3 – Bitcoin
How to identify Bitcoin addresses, wallets, transactions, users and their associations
APT1 and learning from their OPSEC failures
Even military hackers make OPSEC mistakes. I bring back the APT1 story in order to outline some bad OPSEC examples that you should avoid if conducting online investigations.
OSINT guide to verifying news from conflict zones
A New Year guide to methods of verifying news, images and videos from conflict zones. To illustrate these methods I am referring to a very recent example of a terrorist attack on a naval base and an airport in Kenya.