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You want to build a Platform? ..What Platform Should I use?
The echo’s of investors had started the buzz of the need for new investigative / intelligence platforms a great deal more than there had been in the past few years.…
Fishing with a Subaru
There comes a time in some OSINT investigations where we have accurately identified our target’s profiles, lifestyle, and communication platforms, but we still aren’t quite to the point of pinpointing…
What Will OSINT/PAI and Collection at Scale Look like for 2020?
2020 will be eventful and likely one of the most historical years containing change, balancing the tension between change, conflict, and hopefully peace in a long time. When reflecting on…
What’s in an email address?
A few weeks ago we went over an interesting way to pivot from breached data passwords to a target by virtue of the lazy way many people reuse the same…
Bad moods = Bad decisions
As a developer and OSINT investigator, I often come across other investigators that are researching a target online and have “hit a wall,” so to speak. “I’ve hit a dead-end,…
Timeline Analysis | Epstein Death Reported on 4Chan Before Announced
In my last entitled Illuminating Context with Timeline Analysis, I gave a rough sketch of the basics. In this post I will share a few specifics. The primary point to…
Illuminating Context with Timeline Analysis
In our training courses, we push ideas and investigative methodology more than we push our tools. Tools will change, but proper investigative methods will not change. Asking the right questions…
It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp
Human trafficking, according to Wikipedia, is the trade of humans for forced labour. With the advent of the internet and high-speed communication, traffickers have found a new way to advertise…
Forget About Deep and Dark Web Hype
Everyone has a different use case that needs to be monitored, and we enable a vast amount of use cases for tailored collection and monitoring with OIMonitor at a very…
OSINT Challenges & Opportunities, Methodology on starting your Hunt.
Every investigation is different, but what never changes is how you have to treat an investigation much like the challenge of building something with a bucket of Legos. With each…
Continued OSINT Collection Innovation for Expansive 24/7 Monitoring on Chat Platforms, Forums, and Social Media
24/7 Monitoring chat platforms, Telegram, IRC & related dialogue protocols.
Hype and the Deep Dark Web
I had previously written about how we started with our our monitoring platform and how that grew into the beast it is today. I didn’t leave much room to frame…