Today’s special guest is Samuel Lolagar @osintgeek

Samuel Lolagar, aka @osintgeek, is a former law enforcement officer and now working as cyber risk engineer. As a studied detective, he investigated in cases of fake web-shops, internet fraud and product piracy. His further stations include the Hessian Ministry of the Interior in the field of extremism prevention and the Hessian Cyber Competence Center. Samuel Lolagar is teaching courses on OSINT, IT-security and privacy. He and Matthias Wilson are the founders of the German Open Source Intelligence Conference, a German-speaking conference regarding OSINT

Samuel’s website: https://osintgeek.de

Upcoming training with Samuel and Christina Lekati: https://fcihi.teachable.com/p/signup

People in this Episode

• Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
• Matthias Wilson (@MwOsint)
• Steven Harris (@nixintel)
• John TerBush (@thegumshoo)
• Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy)
• Lisette (@technisette)

Links to what we discussed

• Sign up for the GOSINTCon: https://gosintcon.de/
• Here’s a new VM from FireEye for threat intel/research: https://github.com/fireeye/ThreatPursuit-VM
• Check out OSINTCombine’s new blog post on dark web OSINT: https://twitter.com/osintcombine/status/1326329875037216768
• If you want to know more about Parler and what info you can find: https://twitter.com/firstdraftnews/status/1326973035207921667
• Case study of how to verify and geolocate images: https://mxsx.eu/2020/11/13/Wakashio.html
• How to use ETags (part of the HTTP response) in OSINT investigations: https://medium.com/@catalyst256/osint-etag-youre-it-ecd7e923392c
• Article about militias, their radio gears and channel frequencies utilised by them: https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies/
• Tool to collect valuable info from YouTube videos: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/
• Lorand’s new blog post explains how to construct powerful search queries: https://www.lorandbodo.com/blog/constructing-searchqueries-osint
• Curated dark web resources for OSINT by MidaSearch: https://midasearch.org/dark-web/
• Thoughts about sockpuppet accounts for OSINT: https://www.aaroncti.com/lets-talk-about-sockpuppet-accounts/

Self Promotion

• Matthias and Samuel are preparing for the German OSINT conference. More info here: https://gosintcon.de
• Micah and John are co-chairs of the SANS OSINT Summit, a free 2-day OSINT conference in February 2021 (https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2021/) and are looking for presenters and attendees!
• NixIntel and Technisette will be speaking at the Internet Intelligence & Investigations Conference this month
• DutchOSINTGuy is proud of his SANS SEC537 Practical OSINT Class (https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/practical-osint-analysis-and-automation/). Registration is open for those classes at significant discount.