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The OSINT Curious Project

By OSINTCurious

The OSINT Curious Project is a source of quality, actionable, Open Source Intelligence news, original blogs, instructional videos, and a bi-weekly webcast/podcast. Most of all, we want to inspire people to look outside of their OSINT-comfort zones and pursue their OSINT passions. We try to keep people curious about exploring web applications for bits of information or trying out new techniques to access important OSINT data.

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The OSINT Curious ProjectJul 22, 2019

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Our Last OSINT Curious Episode

Our Last OSINT Curious Episode

All good things come to an end, and OSINT Curious is no exception. In our final live stream, we are coming together to discuss why the project is finalized, and what is going to happen to the blog posts, videos, our discord channel, and all other material that we published along the years.  

We also give a big, heartfelt THANK YOU to all of our sponsors and patreons for supporting us in running this project, but also our listeners/viewers and everyone else that has been following us on this journey, developed their OSINT skills with us, and shared comments, questions and resources.   

Last, we share some of our favorite moments within OSINT Curious and discuss what's next for each of us.  Thank you all for being here. Don't forget to...STAY OSINT CURIOUS!!!

Mar 04, 202343:01
Monthly OSINT News & Tools - December 2022

Monthly OSINT News & Tools - December 2022

Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. 

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) put some extra emphasis on demonstrating new tools and search techniques. They started by discussing SMART (Start Me Aggregated Resource Tool), an OSINT Start.me page parser and aggregator. Bash scripting came into the conversation shortly after and along with it, Sinwindie's (@OSINTDojo) video tutorial.  

OSINT on Mastodon had it's special place on this episode, as it is a social media platform that has been growing exponentially the past few weeks. We discussed what is different from other social media platforms and shared an introductory guide on how to conduct OSINT investigations on it. We also demonstrated 3 different ways & tools one can use to find usernames and accounts on Mastodon. 

Micah and Christina moved on to discuss the role cryptography can play in certain investigations and shared a blog post that acts as a useful introduction into this intersection of disciplines. 

Micah demonstrated the project "Backmoji", a resource that keeps historical data on the bitmoji's someone has historically used, based on their user ID. This database can reflect changes people have made in their appearance over time. 

Speaking of appearances and images, we also shared a twitter thread that lists a number of resources that help conduct and improve reverse image searches. The list does not only contain tools that conduct RIS, but also editing tools that help this process.  

Thank you for joining us for another episode, we wish everyone a happy holiday season and a happy new year! See you next time! 

📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream: 

SMART (Start Me Aggregated Resource Tool): https://webbreacher.com/2022/11/14/get-smart-about-osint/

Sinwindie's (@Sinwindie / @OSINTDojo) Bash Scripting Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXZv0hST0M

Blog “Mastodon OSINT: A Comprehensive introduction” https://www.secjuice.com/mastodon-osint-a-comprehensive-introduction/

WhatsMyName Username Checking Tool: https://whatsmyname.app/

Imagstodon Tool: https://seintpl.github.io/imagstodon/

Masto Tool: https://github.com/C3n7ral051nt4g3ncy/Masto

Blog: "Cryptography & OSINT - The fundamentals": https://www.dutchosintguy.com/post/cryptography-osint-the-fundamentals

Backmoji Tool: https://backmoji.osint.ninja

Twitter thread by “OSINT for All”: “Ultimate list of resources for reverse image search”: https://twitter.com/AllForOsint/status/1588348612802932736 

👁‍🗨 OSINT Curious:  

🌍WEBSITE: All of our resources, blog posts, 10 minute tips, videos and podcasts in one place. You also find ways to participate and support our project. https://osintcurio.us/ 

🦉TWITTER:  Connect with us! We post OSINT updates, news, tips and tools, and interact with the Twitter community. https://twitter.com/osintcurious 

👩‍💻 DISCORD:  Chat with us on The OSINT Curious Discord server! This is a place to share your own resources, ask questions, give and receive help in solving OSINT challenges, and interact with a very enthusiastic OSINT community. https://iam.osintcurio.us/discord

Dec 06, 202251:43
Interview With Chris Kirsch

Interview With Chris Kirsch

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) are joined by Chris Kirsch (chris_kirsch) for an interview! Chris is the CEO of runZero, a cyber asset management company he co-founded with Metasploit creator HD Moore. In 2017, he earned the Black Badge for winning the Social Engineering Capture the Flag competition at DEF CON, while last year, he participated as a judge for the vishing competition at the Social Engineering Community.

In this interview, we discuss the intersection between OSINT and social engineering. Chris shares with us stories from the application of OSINT in social engineering operations, and describes some of the top OSINT techniques and resources that he observed at the Social Engineering vishing competition. 

You can follow Chris on: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chris_kirsch

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckirsch/

Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@chris_kirsch 


📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream: 

Layer8 Presentation "Using OSINT For Competitive Intelligence": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB-wLadJ3hk

Blog "Top OSINT sources and vishing pretexts from DEF CON’s social engineering competition": https://medium.com/@chris.kirsch/top-osint-sources-and-vishing-pretexts-from-def-cons-social-engineering-competition-8e08de4c8ea8

Blog "Corporate OSINT for Social Engineering": https://osintcurio.us/2022/05/17/corporate-osint-for-social-engineering/

Winning call from DEF CON SECTF 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhE372sqURU  

Pickpocketing talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvET4r4uARQ

Social engineering resources: https://medium.com/@chris.kirsch/social-engineering-recommended-resources-10243113b80b  

Chris' company: https://www.runzero.com/

External scanning using runZero: https://www.runzero.com/blog/external-scanning/   

👁‍🗨 OSINT Curious:  

🌍WEBSITE: All of our resources, blog posts, 10 minute tips, videos and podcasts in one place. You also find ways to participate and support our project. https://osintcurio.us/  

🦉TWITTER:  Connect with us! We post OSINT updates, news, tips and tools, and interact with the Twitter community. https://twitter.com/osintcurious  

🤝 PATREON SPONSORSHIP:  As our project continues to grow, we are increasingly thankful for those people, companies, and organizations that choose to support us financially. https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious  

👩‍💻 DISCORD:  Chat with us on The OSINT Curious Discord server! This is a place to share your own resources, ask questions, give and receive help in solving OSINT challenges, and interact with a very enthusiastic OSINT community. https://iam.osintcurio.us/discord

Nov 18, 202252:36
Monthly OSINT News & Tools - October 2022

Monthly OSINT News & Tools - October 2022

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati), are joined by Robin (@NothicEye) to talk about this month's #OSINT News & Tools.   

Our conversation started by focusing on the individuals that are wishing to enter the world of open-source intelligence not only as hobbyists but also, perhaps, as professionals. We talked about our latest blog post “Five tips to get you started in OSINT” in which 5 of our OSINT Curious members are sharing one quick tip each on getting started in this space.   

Thinking of the ones who would like to start a career in OSINT or look for different opportunities, we moved on to discuss a series of new interviews that were posted last month in the OSINT Jobs website. The blog/interview series is called “What hiring managers are looking for” and draws from the perspectives of 6 different hiring managers in the OSINT industry. The questions in these interviews include "how can candidates stand out right away?" and "What does the recruitment process look like in your organization?" among other, many interesting questions.   

Few things can help an OSINT practitioner develop their skills and broaden their perspective more than belonging to a small or large group or community. Robin (@NothicEye) who is also one of the moderators of the OSINT Curious Discord group, was able to share with us her observations from participating in OSINT-focused groups. She points out that smaller groups of practitioners can have a wide range of benefits.  

Our team then moved on to discussing Nico Deken's (@dutch_osintguy) updates on his programmable search engine for people's digital business cards and social media details.  

For the Geolocation fans we shared and discussed two resources:  

1. Benjamin Strick's (@BenDoBrown) YouTube videos in which he goes through different tips, techniques and tools in geolocating visual elements. Last week, Benjamin started a new video series called "Let's Geolocate" 

2. A Geolocation Cheat Sheet from @TheSEINT - a pretty detailed mind map with different elements that you can investigate when you analyze an image and try to geolocate it.  

All the relevant links can be found below!  

📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream:  

OSINT Curious Blog: “Five tips to get you started in OSINT” : https://osintcurio.us/2022/10/13/five-tips-to-get-you-started-in-osint/  

OSINT Jobs Blog Post Series: “What hiring managers are looking for” : https://www.osint-jobs.com/blog/career-osint-jobs  

Nico Deken’s Custom Digital Business Card Search Engine: https://github.com/Dutchosintguy/digital-business-cards-pse/  

Benjamin Strick’s new YouTube series “Let’s Geolocate” (& other videos): https://www.youtube.com/c/Bendobrown   

Geolocation Cheat Sheet from @TheSEINT https://github.com/seintpl/osint/blob/main/Geolocation%20Analysis%20Diagram%20Outside%20clues.pdf   

👁‍🗨 OSINT Curious:  

🌍WEBSITE: All of our resources, blog posts, 10 minute tips, videos and podcasts in one place. You also find ways to participate and support our project. https://osintcurio.us/   

🦉TWITTER:  Connect with us! We post OSINT updates, news, tips and tools, and interact with the Twitter community. https://twitter.com/osintcurious   

🤝 PATREON SPONSORSHIP:  As our project continues to grow, we are increasingly thankful for those people, companies, and organizations that choose to support us financially. https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious   

👩‍💻 DISCORD:  Chat with us on The OSINT Curious Discord server! This is a place to share your own resources, ask questions, give and receive help in solving OSINT challenges, and interact with a very enthusiastic OSINT community. https://iam.osintcurio.us/discord

Oct 24, 202248:53
Monthly OSINT News & Tools - September 2022

Monthly OSINT News & Tools - September 2022

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Christina (@ChristinaLekati), and Nico (@dutch_osintguy) talked about this month's #OSINT News, Tools and Blogs.  

They started by discussing a new blog post by Theo Baxter (@T-Baxter90) on investigating violent and distressing content through an OSINT investigation. Two additional resources were recommended by our team, as complementary reading/viewing material to this very important topic. They also discussed their new OSINT Curious blog post “Find Company Data With A Programmable Search Engine”, written by @nixintel.  

Micah, Christina, and Nico went on showcasing and discussing some new interesting tools, including a tool that conducts url scans, a database of landmarks, and Instagram's new map feature that allows you to view the public stories from specific locations. They also showcased how to change user agent in Chrome, using built-in features.  

Last, this week's OSINT Curious team discussed some recent community projects and contributions that our listeners and viewers could find both useful and entertaining. If you did not have enough of OSINT goodness this week, head out to the videos that our team produced, in collaboration with David Bombal (details in the links below).  

📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream: 

Blog "Investigating violent & distressing content as part of OSINT investigations" : https://medium.com/@T_Baxter90/investigating-violent-distressing-content-as-part-of-osint-investigations-6fa141fa7f2d

Blog "Vicarious trauma and OSINT – a practical guide" : https://osintcurio.us/2020/06/08/vicarious-trauma-and-osint-a-practical-guide/

OSINT Curious Live Stream with Nicole Beckwith on mental health during OSINT investigations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03t7ctuVMnk

Blog "Find Company Data With a Programmable Search Engine": https://osintcurio.us/2022/09/12/find-company-data-with-a-programmable-search-engine/

UrlScan: https://urlscan.io

GeoHints: https://geohints.com/

Instagram's map feature: https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/instagram-map

UserAgent Switcher: https://twitter.com/WebBreacher/status/1572595024046465024  

WhatsMyName: https://whatsmyname.app

David Bombal's Videos With: 

Lisette, Steven, and Micah - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImWJgDQ-_ek 

Lisette and Steven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsY32K1s51Y    

Micah - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6l2Bmh7Dq4  

NotMyPlate - Car Tracking: https://twitter.com/intidc/status/1574263808607997953 

👁‍🗨 OSINT Curious:  

🌍WEBSITE: All of our resources, blog posts, 10 minute tips, videos and podcasts in one place. You also find ways to participate and support our project. https://osintcurio.us/  

🦉TWITTER:  Connect with us! We post OSINT updates, news, tips and tools, and interact with the Twitter community. https://twitter.com/osintcurious  

🤝 PATREON SPONSORSHIP:  As our project continues to grow, we are increasingly thankful for those people, companies, and organizations that choose to support us financially. https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious  

👩‍💻 DISCORD:  Chat with us on The OSINT Curious Discord server! This is a place to share your own resources, ask questions, give and receive help in solving OSINT challenges, and interact with a very enthusiastic OSINT community. https://iam.osintcurio.us/discord

Sep 26, 202241:25
Interview with Alex Slotnick (@BOsintBlanc)

Interview with Alex Slotnick (@BOsintBlanc)

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Christina (@ChristinaLekati), and Michael James (@Ginsberg51050) talk with  Alex Slotnick (@BOsintBlanc), a threat intelligence analyst and the case tracking & statistics lead for the National Child Protection Task Force. 

Alex talked to us about his journey from Desktop Support to becoming an OSINT analyst, teaching himself the necessary skills to get started, and volunteering within a non-profit, which enabled him to offer the skills he had while also acquiring new ones through practical work and networking. As it turns out, getting this practical experience helped him to eventually get a corporate OSINT job too. 

He also talked to us about how he handles his confidence levels when working with incomplete data, and offered practical advice on acquiring several points of verification. As a natural follow-up to this conversation was some advice on handling data that contradict a finding or an investigative conclusion. 

Alex talked to us about his work at the National Child Protection Task Force, and answered multiple questions from the audience. He offered recommendations on books, tools, and offered advice on getting into OSINT. 

You can follow Alex on: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BOsintBlanc

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bosintblanc/ 


📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream: 

The National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF): https://www.ncptf.org/

Book: Structured Analytic Techniques by R. H. Pherson & R. J. Heuer  

Book: Open Source Intelligence Techniques by M. Bazzell

Book: The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by R. J. Heuer  

OSINT Dojo: https://www.osintdojo.com/

Epieos: https://epieos.com/

Dehashed: https://www.dehashed.com/ 


👁‍🗨 OSINT Curious:  

🌍WEBSITE: All of our resources, blog posts, 10 minute tips, videos and podcasts in one place. You also find ways to participate and support our project. https://osintcurio.us/ 

🦉TWITTER:  

Connect with us! We post OSINT updates, news, tips and tools, and interact with the Twitter community. https://twitter.com/osintcurious 

🤝 PATREON SPONSORSHIP:  

As our project continues to grow, we are increasingly thankful for those people, companies, and organizations that choose to support us financially. https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious

👩‍💻 DISCORD:  

Chat with us on The OSINT Curious Discord server! This is a place to share your own resources, ask questions, give and receive help in solving OSINT challenges, and interact with a very enthusiastic OSINT community. https://iam.osintcurio.us/discord 

Aug 16, 202252:42
Monthly OSINT News & Tools - August 2022

Monthly OSINT News & Tools - August 2022

Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. 

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) talked about the OSINT Conferences that will be happening within the coming months, most of which are free to attend and packed with interesting talks. 

They moved on discussing & showcasing some tools starting with CCTV Mass Pirates, a map that shows the locations and certain specifications of over 160.000 cameras around the world. Some of the cameras on the map have open feeds, while another data point you may find are Mapillary keys. Mapillary is a service that is crowdsourcing geotagged photos & videos. Combined with the CCTV Mass Pirates map, these tools may prove very useful for investigations where Google StreetView is blocked or non-existent. After that, they talked about Travel Time Map, a tool that draws a travel time area on a map while giving you plenty of options to narrow down your research: travel means (bike, transportation, car, foot), date, time span, and more. These tools can be used on their own, or in combination. For that reason, we also discussed use cases.

Micah and Christina then talked about Image Extractor, a tool that allows users to download/extract all available images from a webpage. They went on highlighting OSINT Dojo as one of the useful resources in our community to practice and learn OSINT skills, but also talked about the Attack Surface Diagrams that are provided in the resources of OSINT Dojo's webpage (view links below). 

Later, they discussed the new OSINT Dark Web bookmarks provided by OSINT Combined, a curated list of bookmarks including search engines, services lists, leak sites and other resources that help OSINT investigators conduct research in the dark web. 

Last, they briefly discussed the two latest blog posts that were published through OSINT Curious, the team's upcoming streams and some news and activities that our OSINT Curious members have been involved in (including Rae Baker's upcoming OSINT book)!  

📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream: 

Recon Village: https://reconvillage.org/ 

GOSINTCon (German speaking OSINT conference): https://gosintcon.de/ 

Australian OSINT Symposium: https://www.osintsymposium.com/ 

Layer8 Conference: https://layer8conference.com/2022-back-in-person/ 

CCTV Mass Pirates: https://cctv.masspirates.org/ 

Mapillary: https://www.mapillary.com/ 

Travel Time Map : https://app.traveltime.com/ 

Image Extractor: https://extract.pics/ 

OSINT Dojo Diagrams: https://www.osintdojo.com/diagrams/main 

OSINT Combined Dark Web Bookmarks: https://www.osintcombine.com/dw-osint-bookmarks 

Old Skool OSINT Blog: https://osintcurio.us/2022/08/04/old-skool-osint/ 

Saving Facebook Blog: https://osintcurio.us/2022/06/14/saving-facebook/  


👁‍🗨 OSINT Curious:  


🌍WEBSITE: 

All of our resources, blog posts, 10 minute tips, videos and podcasts in one place. You also find ways to participate and support our project. https://osintcurio.us/  

🦉TWITTER:  

Connect with us! We post OSINT updates, news, tips and tools, and interact with the Twitter community. https://twitter.com/osintcurious  

🤝 PATREON SPONSORSHIP:  

As our project continues to grow, we are increasingly thankful for those people, companies, and organizations that choose to support us financially. https://www.patreon.com/osintcurious  

👩‍💻 DISCORD:  

Chat with us on The OSINT Curious Discord server! This is a place to share your own resources, ask questions, give and receive help in solving OSINT challenges, and interact with a very enthusiastic OSINT community. https://iam.osintcurio.us/discord

Aug 10, 202256:45
Interview with Jessica Smith (@scarlettsleuth)
Jul 19, 202253:41
Interview With Loránd Bodó - OSINT Jobs

Interview With Loránd Bodó - OSINT Jobs

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Michael James (@Ginsberg5150) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) talk with Loránd Bodó (@LorandBodo) about his new project OSINT Jobs (https://www.osint-jobs.com), a platform that shares hand-picked, OSINT-related job openings and helps the OSINT community grow their skills and advance their careers. 

They discuss about the diversity of OSINT-related jobs in different industries, and about how Loránd is curating the job opportunities he publishes on the website. 

They also talk about utilizing the content that is published within www.osint-jobs.com which includes interviews, blog posts and a podcast. Those resources help individuals to better understand what career path to follow within the realm of OSINT, how to develop the skills necessary for their dream job, and how to get connected and apply for jobs.  

Last, they talked about doing freelance work and getting a fair pay for OSINT services, along with answering viewer questions.

Mar 18, 202251:19
OSINT Live Stream : OSINT News & Tools - January & February 2022

OSINT Live Stream : OSINT News & Tools - January & February 2022

Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) briefly talk about the new OSINT Curious blog : "Location of an IP Address" and the dangers of relying too heavily on the geolocations that become available through IP addresses. Sector035 (@Sector035), who authored the blog, will cover this topic in more detail next week. They also talked about the Geowifi, a tool that aggregates wifi data from multiple sources, and discussed #OSINT use cases with the tool Cleanup.Pictures, a tool that is used to retouch images by removing objects, people, texts and other disturbances. Micah and Christina also talked about the role of gut feelings and hunches in OSINT as well as how they can support or hinder the intelligence analysis process. Listening to our gut feeling is important, but in intelligence analysis one needs to also be aware of their biases, and of how their past experiences might affect their gut feeling and their judgement. Last, they talked about Obsidian, a note-taking and knowledge management tool that provides many possibilities when it comes to documenting, organizing, and creating connections between data - or even their thoughts.

Feb 20, 202250:06
Interview with Sarah Womer (@UnleashedOSINT)

Interview with Sarah Womer (@UnleashedOSINT)

Our @ChristinaLekati, @LorandBodo & @Webbreacher spoke to Sarah (@UnleashedOSINT) about her career, teaching youth in online safeguarding practices, OSINT, ethics, and much more.

Oct 17, 202147:44
Interview with Jessica Davis (@JessMarinDavis)

Interview with Jessica Davis (@JessMarinDavis)

In our new interview @lorandbodo talked to terrorist financing expert @JessMarinDavis about her career, her new book "Illicit Money", & what role #OSINT can play in combating terrorist financing Follow Jessica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessMarinDavisSubscribe to her newsletter: https://insightintel.substack.com/Get her new book Illicit Money on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Illicit-Money-Financing-Terrorism-Twenty-First/dp/1626379823/ 

Sep 26, 202146:02
Interview with Freddy M.
Aug 22, 202101:07:55
Livestream with Nicole Beckwith

Livestream with Nicole Beckwith

This week, Micah Hoffman, Christina Lekati, John TerBush, and Josh Huff talked with Nicole Beckwith (https://twitter.com/NicoleBeckwith) about mental health in OSINT investigations. 

This conversation was filled with practical advice and tips that you can apply before, during and after an investigation. 

We talked about the Honeycomb effect and about preparing your investigative workspace by creating as few mental anchors as possible in order to have a clear separation between investigating and the rest of your everyday life and activities. 

We analyzed the H.A.L.T. technique, which refers to checking whether you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired before or during an investigation, and making sure that you take care of those needs. 

We also talked about listening to your body to recognize signs of tension during an investigation and taking a step back when you recognize these signs by applying the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding method: focusing on 5 things that you see, 4 things that you feel, 3 things that you hear, 2 things that you smell and 1 thing that you taste- preferably lemon water. 

We finished our conversation by discussing the flip side of the coin- getting into your target's mind, establishing their baseline and finding their motives.

Jul 19, 202159:41
Interview with Janna (@JannaJoceli)
Jul 11, 202151:28
Interview with Lana (@IntelLana)

Interview with Lana (@IntelLana)

In this week's OSINTCurious interview, we spoke to Lana, an analyst at a German law enforcement agency. She told us about her career, challenges she faces and gave us insights into the daily tasks of an OSINT analyst at an LE agency.

Jun 27, 202141:58
Interview with Kevin Metcalf (@Volk_NCPTF)

Interview with Kevin Metcalf (@Volk_NCPTF)

This week we interviewed Kevin Metcalf, a former federal agent turned prosecutor and founder of the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF). Kevin told us about the history of the organisation, how OSINT is being used to find missing children as well as prosecute predators, and some of the challenges the organisation faces when doing such work.

May 30, 202143:20
Interview with Tokyo (@Tokyo_v2)

Interview with Tokyo (@Tokyo_v2)

In this week's interview the #osintcurious crew interviews Tokyo (@Tokyo_v2). She is a well known person within the Open Source Intelligence community about her blogs on #OSINT in Japan and doing OSINT on Airbnb. She is also part of and actively contributes to the @teamsearchlight OSINT crew. We talk with her about what got her into #OSINT how she tackles her self paced learning within OSINT.


May 16, 202141:20
Interview with DJNemec (@djnemec)

Interview with DJNemec (@djnemec)

In this week's interview the #osintcurious crew interviews Dan Nemec (@djnemec). He is a software developer at a large company and spends a lot of his spare time on OSINT. Dan's contributions are very well known within the OSINT community. We talk to him about how he got into developing #OSINT tools and how he uses #python coding to speed up certain repetitive tasks.

May 03, 202145:28
Interview with John Marquee (@john_marquee)

Interview with John Marquee (@john_marquee)

In this episode, the #osintcurious crew interviews John Marquee (@john_marquee). He is an Open Source investigator and very well known for his #geolocating skills. John also contributed to #BBCAfricaEye, #NYtimes and #Amnesty international projects. We talk to him about how he got into #OSINT. John also talks about how one can get better at geolocating giving some excellent tips and tradecraft tricks.


Apr 18, 202141:31
Interview with Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson)

Interview with Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson)

In this episode the #osintcurious crew interviews Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson). He is a well known #cyber security researcher with lots of mobile application reverse #malware engineering skills.  We talk with him about how he overlaps reverse engineering with #OSINT as well as his new company that makes #bigdata available to fight #disinformation amongst other subjects.

Apr 04, 202144:46
Interview with Rui Barros

Interview with Rui Barros

Check out our interview with Rui Barros. Rui is a Portuguese data journalist and uses data to tell stories. His visualizations and work can be found on his website: https://ruimgbarros.com/projects/

Mar 20, 202140:54
Interview with Griffin (@hatless1der)

Interview with Griffin (@hatless1der)

In this #osintcurious​ interview we sit down with Griffin (@hatless1der).   We talk about his background doing investigative work for over 20 years and how he started getting into #OSINT​. We talk about how he combines OSINT within his investigation within the private sector as well as him being part of the NCPTF (National Child Protection Task Force).

Mar 07, 202134:34
Episode 53: OSINT Tips, Tricks and Techniques with Ines, Technisette, Micah and Steven

Episode 53: OSINT Tips, Tricks and Techniques with Ines, Technisette, Micah and Steven

Tune for this episode and listen to Micah, Steven, Ines and Technisette engage in the newest OSINT topics

Mar 07, 202101:10:20
Episode 52: OSINT Goodness with Micah, Ritu, Christina, Steven and John

Episode 52: OSINT Goodness with Micah, Ritu, Christina, Steven and John

Join the OSINT Curious crew as they discuss OSINT tips, tricks and techniques

Mar 07, 202101:04:45
Interview with Christina Lekati

Interview with Christina Lekati

This time we interviewed our new #osintcurious​ advisory board member Christina Lekati. We talked about her background in psychology and how it correlates to #osint​ and #humint​.

Mar 07, 202139:17
Interview with Justin Seitz

Interview with Justin Seitz

We had a chance to interview Justin Seitz a.k.a @jms_dot_py. Justin is the owner of Hunchly, creator of two Python coding Books, co- author Automating OSINT with Python course to name a few things. He is a renowned name within the cyber and OSINT community. Join the OSINTcurious crew and Justin for a interview and talk with Justin.

Mar 07, 202146:56
Episode 51: What do you need to become an intermediate OSINTer? How can Shodan contribute to OSINT investigations?

Episode 51: What do you need to become an intermediate OSINTer? How can Shodan contribute to OSINT investigations?

Join Technisette (@technisette), Inês (@IWN_LX), Nico (@dutch_osintguy), Micah (@WebBreacher) and Steven (@nixintel) on the newest episode as they discuss the skills needed to become an intermediate OSINTer. How do you improve your OSINT skills? How do you find an OSINT job? Will certificates help you in your job search? Lean back and listen to these experts provide valuable tips on how to get to the next level of OSINT.

Furthermore, the team takes a look at the possibilities that Shodan offers in OSINT investigations. 

Feb 01, 202158:13
Episode 50: New stream format, OSINT on the US Capitol Event, crowd-sourced OSINT and law enforcement

Episode 50: New stream format, OSINT on the US Capitol Event, crowd-sourced OSINT and law enforcement

Happy New Year! We're back in 2021 with a new format. Today Micah (@WebBreacher), John (@thegumshoo), Steve (@nixintel) and Matthias (@MwOsint) discuss OSINT activities around the recent event at the US Capitol, e.g. how crowd-sourced OSINT can support law enforcement and how content was collected and saved by non-profits before being erased off the internet.

Jan 10, 202132:24
Episode 49: It's a wrap! Discussion on tools vs. training, creating intelligence products, sharing OSINT techniques and more

Episode 49: It's a wrap! Discussion on tools vs. training, creating intelligence products, sharing OSINT techniques and more

In this final episode of The OSINT Curious Project webcast/podcast in 2020, we have an interesting panel discussion for you. Micah, Matthias, and Steven discuss some OSINT topics.

People in this Episode
  • Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
  • Matthias Wilson (@mwosint)
  • Steven Harris (@nixintel)
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Thank you for listening, watching, and reading our content in 2020!

Dec 14, 202059:42
Episode 48: Keyword search on Instagram, Scraping Fleets, OSINTDojo, AI-generated photos, Parler searching

Episode 48: Keyword search on Instagram, Scraping Fleets, OSINTDojo, AI-generated photos, Parler searching

People in this Episode
  • Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
  • Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy)
  • Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques)
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Self Promotion
Dec 05, 202053:10
Episode 47: Samuel Lolagar (OSINTGeek), FireEye VM, Dark Web, Parler, ETags, a bit of SIGINT and collecting info from Youtube videos

Episode 47: Samuel Lolagar (OSINTGeek), FireEye VM, Dark Web, Parler, ETags, a bit of SIGINT and collecting info from Youtube videos

Today’s special guest is Samuel Lolagar @osintgeek

Samuel’s website: https://osintgeek.de


People in this Episode
  • Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
  • Matthias Wilson (@MwOsint)
  • Steven Harris (@nixintel)
  • John TerBush (@thegumshoo)
  • Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy)
  • Lisette (@technisette)
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Dec 05, 202001:04:24
Episode 46: Guest Amine Ghoulidi, resources on mis- and disinformation, investigating international phone numbers, Geolocation 10-minute tip and much more!

Episode 46: Guest Amine Ghoulidi, resources on mis- and disinformation, investigating international phone numbers, Geolocation 10-minute tip and much more!

Today’s special guest

People in this Episode
  • Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
  • Matthias Wilson (@mwosint)
  • Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
  • Steven Harris (@nixintel)
  • John TerBush (@thegumshoo)
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Nov 08, 202001:03:04
Episode 45: Q&A with the audience, lifting fingerprints from fotos, CONINT, understanding time stamps on social media, Google IDs and more

Episode 45: Q&A with the audience, lifting fingerprints from fotos, CONINT, understanding time stamps on social media, Google IDs and more

People in this Episode
  • Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
  • Matthias Wilson (@mw_Osint)
  • Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
  • Technisette
  • Sector035
  • Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques)
  • John TerBush (@thegumshoo)
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Oct 23, 202001:05:60
Episode 44: Guest Julia Bayer, Geolocating without Street View and Google Maps, SOCMINT on foreign social media, FOCA for OSINT, DNS research

Episode 44: Guest Julia Bayer, Geolocating without Street View and Google Maps, SOCMINT on foreign social media, FOCA for OSINT, DNS research

This week’s guest is Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia)

Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW´s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom.

People in this Episode
  • Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)
  • Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint)
  • Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
  • Nixintel (@nixintel)
  • Sector035 (@sector035)
  • Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)
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Oct 05, 202057:43
Episode 43: Guest Emmanuelle Welch, Maltego for Telegram, Google Account Finder, WIPO Database, Twitter Analysis Framework

Episode 43: Guest Emmanuelle Welch, Maltego for Telegram, Google Account Finder, WIPO Database, Twitter Analysis Framework

This week’s guest is Emmanuelle Welch (@frenchpi)

Emmanuelle Welch is a Licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and owner of French Connection Research, a private investigative agency in Brooklyn, NY, licensed in New York and Washington, DC. She specializes in white-collar crime investigations, cross-Atlantic litigation support and OSINT analysis.


People in this Episode
  • Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)
  • Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
  • Nixintel (@nixintel)
  • Kirby Plessas (@kirbstr)
  • John (@thegumshoo)
  • Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)
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Oct 05, 202055:43
Episode 42: New Facebook design, creating sock puppets, Redditor, OSINT on Telegram, WhatsMyName Update

Episode 42: New Facebook design, creating sock puppets, Redditor, OSINT on Telegram, WhatsMyName Update

Welcome back!

We are back with a brand new episode after our one-month summer break! In this week’s episode, we catch up with the latest OSINT news, as usual!

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Sep 07, 202057:10
Episode 41: Special Guest Ines Narciso, video search tool Peteyvid, estimating crowd sizes, and more on facial recognition (even for dogs)

Episode 41: Special Guest Ines Narciso, video search tool Peteyvid, estimating crowd sizes, and more on facial recognition (even for dogs)

Special Guest

Inês Narciso (@IWN_LX) – Ines worked in the Portuguese Intelligence Service for 12 years. She started up doing OSINT in 2008 and later became an OSINT and online undercover operations project manager. In 2019, she joined Iscte Iul a Lisbon University where she teaches Digital Methods and conducts research on disinformation. Since then, she’s also built a company that uses OSINT to find people’s ancestors and build family trees. In her spare time, she also helps pro bono fellow journalists in Portugal and abroad in their investigations and women who have been a victim of revenge porn or intimate image abuse.

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Jul 28, 202059:34
Episode 40: Geolocating IPs and mobile phones, PimEye, 3D reconstruction of facial images and more...

Episode 40: Geolocating IPs and mobile phones, PimEye, 3D reconstruction of facial images and more...

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  • Micah Hoffman, Nico Dekens & John TerBush: SANS SEC487 Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Gathering & Analysis. Several options for Live Online & In Person
Jul 13, 202001:04:36
Episode 39: Ibexmind with Peter King,  Twitter history, aircraft and drone monitoring, TraceLabs OSINT Virtual Machine and more...

Episode 39: Ibexmind with Peter King, Twitter history, aircraft and drone monitoring, TraceLabs OSINT Virtual Machine and more...

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Jun 30, 202055:09
Ep 35: (Originally aired May 3) Guest Aliaume Leroy, a new Verification Handbook released, using birds to help geolocate and more....!

Ep 35: (Originally aired May 3) Guest Aliaume Leroy, a new Verification Handbook released, using birds to help geolocate and more....!

Originally aired May 3, 2020

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May 26, 202056:05
Ep 34: (Originally aired 19 April) Interview with the famous Arno Reuser, using UntappdScraper for checkin location data, and more

Ep 34: (Originally aired 19 April) Interview with the famous Arno Reuser, using UntappdScraper for checkin location data, and more

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May 26, 202055:37
Ep. 36: Interview with Jane Lytvynenko on disinfo, the "OSINT State of Mind", cropping images and facial recognition reverse searching and more!

Ep. 36: Interview with Jane Lytvynenko on disinfo, the "OSINT State of Mind", cropping images and facial recognition reverse searching and more!

Originally aired May 17, 20202

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May 26, 202001:09:21
Episode 33: We speak with guest Jan Tegze from sourcing.games, analytic thinking, beyond EXIF in photos, and more...

Episode 33: We speak with guest Jan Tegze from sourcing.games, analytic thinking, beyond EXIF in photos, and more...

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Apr 19, 202055:08
Episode 32: Chris Poulter from OSINTCombine talks tools and debuts one during the webcast! Also: disinfo during the COVID-19 crisis and more...

Episode 32: Chris Poulter from OSINTCombine talks tools and debuts one during the webcast! Also: disinfo during the COVID-19 crisis and more...

People in this Episode:

  • Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) 
  • Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) 
  • Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) 
  • Nixintel 
  • Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) 
  • Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) 
  • Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) 
  • Special guest: Chris Poulter (@osintcombine) and more info on https://www.osintcombine.com/ 

Links to what we discussed: 

  1. https://www.reuters.com/manipulatedmedia 
  2. https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/fake-news-complicated/ 
  3. http://verificationhandbook.com/ 
  4. https://disinfo.quaidorsay.fr/encyclopedia 
  5. https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer 

Self promotion: 

  • Micah’s SEC487 course has moved to CyberCast format. 6 full days of online OSINT learning streaming to you via GoToTraining. Classes https://www.sans.org/course/open-source-intelligence-gathering#type-cybercast 
  • Rae speaking at layer8 about Martine OSINT 
  • Kirby has webinars almost every Thursday at https://academy.plessas.net and has moved all custom training seminars online. Also check out our curated and commentated subscription news feed 
  • Interested in fighting mis and disinformation around COVID19? Then join the Slack channel. DM Lorand on Twitter for more info
Apr 04, 202001:03:18
Episode 31: Jeff Lomas of BleuBloodHound, MWOsint demos the MSFT video indexer and more...

Episode 31: Jeff Lomas of BleuBloodHound, MWOsint demos the MSFT video indexer and more...


People in this Episode:

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Skills Demo: 

Matthias a.k.a MWOsint – https://keyfindings.blog/2020/03/08/using-the-microsoft-video-indexer-for-osint/ demo 

Self Promotion:

  • Dutch_OsintGuy added new events to his website for several trainings and workshops https://dutchosintguy.com/events-and-blogs/ 
  • Dutch_Osintguy : Workshop understanding Google’s search results and advanced searching techniques workshop (Dutch language only) together with Aware Online. March 20th in Amsterdam. https://www.aware-online.com/workshop-google-voor-gevorderden/ 
  • Micah (WebBreacher) has multiple SANS SEC487 live classes (https://sans.org/sec487) coming up in the coming months and is looking forward to the GIAC GOSI OSINT certification (https://giac.org/gosi) moving into beta testing in April.
Mar 09, 202001:08:26
Episode 30, A brief chat about WhatsApp, a new OSINT-dedicated Linux build and more..
Mar 09, 202023:06
Episode 29: Interview with OSINTTechniques, Google dorking SSIDs, a look at the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash using OSINT and more

Episode 29: Interview with OSINTTechniques, Google dorking SSIDs, a look at the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash using OSINT and more

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Feb 20, 202001:00:38
Episode 28: Bitcoin with Bellingcat's Brenna Smith, Finding who is running Wordpress even behind Cloudflare, and more

Episode 28: Bitcoin with Bellingcat's Brenna Smith, Finding who is running Wordpress even behind Cloudflare, and more


People in this Episode:

  • Ginsberg5150
  • Dutch_Osintguy
  • Sector035
  • Kirby Plessas
  • And our special guest: Brenna Smith 

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Jan 29, 202001:08:45
Episode 27 - OSINT Curious is a year old! And we have Vortimo's Roelof Temmingh!

Episode 27 - OSINT Curious is a year old! And we have Vortimo's Roelof Temmingh!

Webcast 20200112 – #27

People in this Episode
  • Dutch_Osintguy
  • Ginsberg5150
  • Micah Hoffman
  • Sector035
  • And our special guest: Roelof Temmingh (VortimoTech)
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Jan 17, 202001:02:11