Hi my name is Josh, I’m an OSINT analyst for the financial industry, digital forensics analyst, and former private investigator.   I remember the day I realized that I wanted to get into information security and ultimately became OSINT curious. This story goes back to my management days of running a helpdesk for a retail chain.  One of my workers told me there was an upset … Continue reading Thanks Ransomware Jerks!

Ha! In deciding who to thank for being OSINT curious, I have to go back to 2002 and the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. I was in the US Army as an Arabic linguist and an analyst. SIGINT was the game then, but as the lead analyst, I wanted to make sure my team knew the context of the events going on so that we could … Continue reading Thank you, Saddam

Hey everyone, my name is Micah but I go by “WebBreacher”. I’m an American, male and have been working in the infosec business for the last 17+ years. I’d like to tell you how I became OSINT curious. I’ve always been curious I cannot remember a time when I didn’t ask questions about how something worked or why something was the way it was. Like … Continue reading Thank you, copier

First, let me shortly introduce myself; My name is Technisette (yes, that’s a nickname, not a sock puppet), Dutch, 30+, female and have been working in the infosec business for the last 10 years. I’d like to tell you how I became OSINT curious. I wasn’t always ‘OSINTcurious’. Of course there was always a little curiosity in me, but there was one incident which really lit … Continue reading Thank you phisher

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

Welcome to OSINTCurious, a place for investigators and journalists, private investigators and intelligence officers, recruiters and everyone that is passionate (or at least curious about) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and investigations. While sitting around a table and chatting about what a great OSINT community is growing in pockets on the internet, some of us realized that there was a piece missing from our community. We … Continue reading Welcome to the Community!