Welcome back!

We are back with a brand new episode after our one-month summer break! In this week’s episode, we catch up with the latest OSINT news, as usual!

People in this Episode

• Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher)
• Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)
• Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
• Sector035 (@Sector035)
• Technisette (@technisette)
• Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)

Links to what we discussed

• A big thank you to all our sponsors and Patreon patrons who have been supporting us! For a full list of our sponsors/patrons and more info, click here https://osintcurio.us/sponsors-and-contributors/
• Learn how to create a sock puppet account for your OSINT investigations. Our very own @ritu has written an extensive guide https://osintcurio.us/2020/08/17/creating-research-accounts-for-osint-investigations/
• Learn about the main differences between the old and new Facebook design. @technisette has got you covered. Click here to view her blog post https://osintcurio.us/2020/08/19/facebook-classic-vs-new-which-is-better-for-osint/
• Check out this new OSINT tool, called Redditor. It’s similar to Tweetdeck but just for Reddit https://rdddeck.com/
• Need some new OSINT resources? Then check out this amazing collection https://start.me/p/DPYPMz/the-ultimate-osint-collection
• Check out @dutchosintguy’s talk about leveraging Telegram for OSINT purposes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_aXQYq2l6U
• What information can collect on Twitter? Have a look at @sinwindies’ attack surface for Twitter: https://twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1297570256546746368. For similar flow charts, click here
• Interested in detecting deep fakes? Microsoft has launched a new tool to detect them. Check it out here: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/01/disinformation-deepfakes-newsguard-video-authenticator/
• Here’s a great thread about some of the most popular darknet markets: https://twitter.com/DarkDotFail/status/1299443832228995073.
• Get free and daily updates about new darknet sites: https://www.hunch.ly/darkweb-osint/
• @mw_osint provides an update about PimEye – a facial search engine: https://twitter.com/MwOsint/status/1301532181714685952
• Wanna track ‘dictators’? Check out this website that tracks aircraft associated with specific countries: https://dictatoralert.org/
• New updates for SentinelHub – see what’s new here: https://twitter.com/sentinel_hub/status/1291380744473006080
• Also new updates for WhatsMyName – a username search engine developed by Micah in collaboration with OSINTCombine and many others. Check it out here: https://whatsmyname.app/
• Search for 393+ million US court records on JudyRecords: https://www.judyrecords.com/
• Practice OSINT and work on real cases. Tracelabs has announced monthly OSINT Search Party CTFs! More info here: https://www.tracelabs.org/

Self Promotion

• Micah will be at the OSINT Symposium in Australia and OSMOSISCon in October
• Rae will be presenting at the Bsides conference in Copenhagen on 18/19 September
• Lisette will be presenting at OSMOSISCon in October – check out her new website too