External link to Quiztime: How To Clean Pictures For Better Search Results

Quiztime: How To Clean Pictures For Better Search Results

OSINT Curious would like to highlight the following blog post by one of its members. https://nixintel.info/osint/quiztime-how-to-clean-pictures-for-better-search-results/. Steven Harris wrote a blog post describing how to remove cluttering data from images to get higher quality reverse image searches. He also walks the reader through his thought processes on how to geolocate the image. Continue reading Quiztime: How To Clean Pictures For Better Search Results

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When there is no Google Earth or Street View, what can you do?

When doing investigations in countries other than the one you reside in, it can be helpful to have social media to give you a view of what a certain place can look like. Although we can rely on tools like Google Earth, Bing’s Birds Eye View, Sentinel Hub and others to give us satellite imagery or street view, you can run into locations where there … Continue reading When there is no Google Earth or Street View, what can you do?

Guide to Harnessing the Power of 360 Virtual Tours for Everyday Investigations.

Guest blog by OsintDunny 360 virtual tours have been utilized by businesses, insurance companies, general contractors, and real estate agents for the past few years as a tool to capture the current state of a property. The emergence of COVID-19 has only increased the use of these 360 virtual tours. The current industry leader for software solutions regarding 360 virtual tours is the California based … Continue reading Guide to Harnessing the Power of 360 Virtual Tours for Everyday Investigations.

Making Sense of OSINT Cell Tower Data for DFIR

For OSINT and digital forensic practitioners, we can grab cell phone tower information from the mobile devices we image and cross-reference those towers with the tower’s physical location. When we combine this data with the date and time of the device owner’s activities, we can better understand where the device (and the owner) were at given times. Continue reading Making Sense of OSINT Cell Tower Data for DFIR