Author: Sector035

Love puzzles, finding security flaws, open source information, geolocation and chronolocation...
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Introduction to Researching Foreign Influence in the US

Guest blog by Amine G. As an OSINT professional, researching US-based entities (individual and otherwise) is both a curse and a blessing. It is a curse because the US public records landscape is undoubtedly one of the most fragmented given that rules governing their disclosure are hyper-localized — varying from State to State and County to County. A blessing because if an entity – short … Continue reading Introduction to Researching Foreign Influence in the US

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Combing Through Video Faster Using DFIR and OSINT Skills

Guest blog post by Jeff Lomas (@BleuBloodHound). Jeff is a detective and digital forensic examiner for a large metropolitan police department in Las Vegas where he has worked for the past 11 years. Jeff executes search warrants on every imaginable digital devices for other detectives and turns the data extracted from these devices into actionable intelligence for other investigators. Introduction Digital forensics or DFIR investigations … Continue reading Combing Through Video Faster Using DFIR and OSINT Skills

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Google Dorks

The term ‘Google dorks’ has been around for quite some years by now and is used for specific search queries that use Google’s search operators, combined with targeted parameters to find specific information. And in the webcast/podcast of early December we reached out to the listeners, to send us your favourite Google Dork. We grouped the dorks by the type of target information that it … Continue reading Google Dorks

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Dial cURL for Content

The tool cURL is already over twenty years old, but it remains one of the most used tools by people, especially the ones working in the IT Security branch. It is used directly on the command line and can send or receive data from a website or IP address. Whether you need to retrieve information over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP or any other kind of … Continue reading Dial cURL for Content

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Certificates: The OSINT Gift that Keeps on Giving…

What are certificates? Everybody on the internet uses certificates, or public key certificates, whether you are aware of it or not. Certificates are documents that can provide proof of an identity, for instance a web server that is claiming its identity to your browser. These public keys can be used for encrypting data that is sent via, for instance, a connection over HTTPS but they … Continue reading Certificates: The OSINT Gift that Keeps on Giving…

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Thank you dad

I am Sector035 and it is time to introduce myself here too. I am a Windows/Linux system admin, security officer and part time OSINT  enthusiast. Since there were already a few ‘thank you’ posts on OSINTCurious where some of us wrote how we got sucked into the world of open source investigations, I decided to do the same. And for me there can only be … Continue reading Thank you dad

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