I recently did a deep dive on the OSINT tool Spiderfoot. There are so many features and I don't think I did it much justice in such a short time frame (30 minutes). I thought a good way to add value is to get the information from the source, the developer of Spiderfoot. Enjoy this … Continue reading Interview With the Developer of Spiderfoot – Steve Micallef
Introduction As a follow up to my AML and OSINT post I did last week, here's an intriguing and insightful interview with Andrew Rudd on different aspects of AML and how OSINT is related to the career field. Learn from Andrew how you can apply your OSINT skills to a different career field and where … Continue reading An Interview with an AML and OSINT Specialist – Andrew Rudd
Something that has been of interest to me lately is the art and science of anti money laundering (AML). I came to this interest sort of by default. I'm in a three way fork in my career that points either towards security management, cyber security/infosec, or investigations/compliance. The security management field requires more travel than … Continue reading The Intersection between AML and OSINT – A Potential Path
As part of a new series on the blog, I want to start reaching out to people who normally wouldn't appear on the podcast and get a little insight on their pathway to OSINT and what they're working on. This interview is of an OSINT Python developer who made the Scavenger bot. It's a bot … Continue reading An Interview with an OSINT Bot Developer
Do you remember those Nigerian prince scams where you'd get an email with a prince promising you millions of dollars if you just help him out with your bank account information? Those were the good ol' days where email dominated the internet. I was tagged in a tweet today by @callmetosyn asking me to help with … Continue reading Uncovering a Real Nigerian Prince Scam with OSINT and a Little Help from My Friends
Introduction If you've read the first post about JungleScam, I'm glad to say that we've released v2 of the script. There are still some kinks that need to be worked out, including adding some proxies to avoid blocks from Amazon, but Francesco and I think there's more value to be had in this new version. … Continue reading JungleScam v2 – Crawl Just Launched, Poor Reviews, and Total Listings Per Seller
Introduction The future of the non-tech savvy OSINT professional is over. The internet has become far too vast for an individual to collect manually and it will only continue to grow at an exponential pace. This is my thesis, but I don't claim to be an expert on the trend nor do I believe this … Continue reading Python is the Future of OSINT – How to Stay Ahead
