The OSINT Curious Project
by OSINTCurious
The OSINT Curious Project is a source of quality, actionable, Open Source Intelligence news, original blogs, instructional videos, and a bi-weekly webcast/podcast. Most of all, we want to inspire people to look outside of their OSINT-comfort zones and pursue their OSINT passions. We try to keep people curious about exploring web applications for bits of information or trying out new techniques to access important OSINT data.We are an OSINT-learning catalyst.
Episodes
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Our Last OSINT Curious Episode
All good things come to an end, and OSINT Curious is no exception. In our final live stream, we are coming together to discuss why the project is finalized, and what is going to happen to the blog posts, videos, our discord channel, and all other material that we published along the years. We…
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Monthly OSINT News & Tools - December 2022
Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) put some extra emphasis on demonstrating new tools and search techniques. They started by discussing SMART (Start Me Aggregated Resource Tool), an...
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Interview With Chris Kirsch
This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) are joined by Chris Kirsch (chris_kirsch) for an interview! Chris is the CEO of runZero, a cyber asset management company he co-founded with Metasploit creator HD Moore. In 2017, he earned the Black Badge for winning the Social...
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Monthly OSINT News & Tools - October 2022
This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati), are joined by Robin (@NothicEye) to talk about this month's #OSINT News & Tools. Our conversation started by focusing on the individuals that are wishing to enter the world of open-source intelligence not only as hobbyists but…
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Monthly OSINT News & Tools - September 2022
This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Christina (@ChristinaLekati), and Nico (@dutch_osintguy) talked about this month's #OSINT News, Tools and Blogs. They started by discussing a new blog post by Theo Baxter (@T-Baxter90) on investigating violent and distressing content through an OSINT…
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Interview with Alex Slotnick (@BOsintBlanc)
This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Christina (@ChristinaLekati), and Michael James (@Ginsberg51050) talk with Alex Slotnick (@BOsintBlanc), a threat intelligence analyst and the case tracking & statistics lead for the National Child Protection Task Force. Alex talked to us about his journey from...
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Monthly OSINT News & Tools - August 2022
Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) talked about the OSINT Conferences that will be happening within the coming months, most of which are free to attend and packed with interesting...
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Interview with Jessica Smith (@scarlettsleuth)
This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) talk with us Jessica Smith (@scarlettsleuth), founder of ClickSafe Intelligence and a volunteer at the National Child Protection Task Force. We discuss Jessica's work in OSINT and her contributions at the National Child Protection...
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Interview With Loránd Bodó - OSINT Jobs
This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), Michael James (@Ginsberg5150) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) talk with Loránd Bodó (@LorandBodo) about his new project OSINT Jobs (https://www.osint-jobs.com), a platform that shares hand-picked, OSINT-related job openings and helps the OSINT community grow…
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OSINT Live Stream : OSINT News & Tools - January & February 2022
Join The OSINT Curious Project team as we talk about some news and tools in #OSINT. This week, Micah (@WebBreacher) and Christina (@ChristinaLekati) briefly talk about the new OSINT Curious blog : "Location of an IP Address" and the dangers of relying too heavily on the geolocations that become...
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Interview with Sarah Womer (@UnleashedOSINT)
Our @ChristinaLekati, @LorandBodo & @Webbreacher spoke to Sarah (@UnleashedOSINT) about her career, teaching youth in online safeguarding practices, OSINT, ethics, and much more.
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Interview with Jessica Davis (@JessMarinDavis)
In our new interview @lorandbodo talked to terrorist financing expert @JessMarinDavis about her career, her new book "Illicit Money", & what role #OSINT can play in combating terrorist financing Follow Jessica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessMarinDavisSubscribe to her newsletter:...
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Interview with Freddy M.
In this week's OSINTCurious interview, we spoke to Freddy M., a Senior Threat Intelligence analyst and experienced intelligence expert on the steps involved in producing intelligence. Freddy walks us through his intelligence architecture map, which is a very detailed visual representation of all...
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Livestream with Nicole Beckwith
This week, Micah Hoffman, Christina Lekati, John TerBush, and Josh Huff talked with Nicole Beckwith (https://twitter.com/NicoleBeckwith) about mental health in OSINT investigations. This conversation was filled with practical advice and tips that you can apply before, during and after an...
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Interview with Janna (@JannaJoceli)
This week, @IWN_LX & @LorandBodo spoke to @JannaJoceli a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). Main topic of discussion - digital research methods & as usual lots of #OSINT
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Interview with Lana (@IntelLana)
In this week's OSINTCurious interview, we spoke to Lana, an analyst at a German law enforcement agency. She told us about her career, challenges she faces and gave us insights into the daily tasks of an OSINT analyst at an LE agency.
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Interview with Kevin Metcalf (@Volk_NCPTF)
This week we interviewed Kevin Metcalf, a former federal agent turned prosecutor and founder of the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF). Kevin told us about the history of the organisation, how OSINT is being used to find missing children as well as prosecute predators, and some of the...
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Interview with Tokyo (@Tokyo_v2)
In this week's interview the #osintcurious crew interviews Tokyo (@Tokyo_v2). She is a well known person within the Open Source Intelligence community about her blogs on #OSINT in Japan and doing OSINT on Airbnb. She is also part of and actively contributes to the @teamsearchlight OSINT crew. We...
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Interview with DJNemec (@djnemec)
In this week's interview the #osintcurious crew interviews Dan Nemec (@djnemec). He is a software developer at a large company and spends a lot of his spare time on OSINT. Dan's contributions are very well known within the OSINT community. We talk to him about how he got into developing #OSINT...
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Interview with John Marquee (@john_marquee)
In this episode, the #osintcurious crew interviews John Marquee (@john_marquee). He is an Open Source investigator and very well known for his #geolocating skills. John also contributed to #BBCAfricaEye, #NYtimes and #Amnesty international projects. We talk to him about how he got into #OSINT.…
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Interview with Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson)
In this episode the #osintcurious crew interviews Robert Baptiste (@fs0c131y a.k.a Elliot Alderson). He is a well known #cyber security researcher with lots of mobile application reverse #malware engineering skills. We talk with him about how he overlaps reverse engineering with #OSINT as well as...
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Interview with Rui Barros
Check out our interview with Rui Barros. Rui is a Portuguese data journalist and uses data to tell stories. His visualizations and work can be found on his website: https://ruimgbarros.com/projects/
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Interview with Griffin (@hatless1der)
In this #osintcurious interview we sit down with Griffin (@hatless1der). We talk about his background doing investigative work for over 20 years and how he started getting into #OSINT. We talk about how he combines OSINT within his investigation within the private sector as well as him being…
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Episode 53: OSINT Tips, Tricks and Techniques with Ines, Technisette, Micah and Steven
Tune for this episode and listen to Micah, Steven, Ines and Technisette engage in the newest OSINT topics
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Episode 52: OSINT Goodness with Micah, Ritu, Christina, Steven and John
Join the OSINT Curious crew as they discuss OSINT tips, tricks and techniques
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Interview with Christina Lekati
This time we interviewed our new #osintcurious advisory board member Christina Lekati. We talked about her background in psychology and how it correlates to #osint and #humint.
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Interview with Justin Seitz
We had a chance to interview Justin Seitz a.k.a @jms_dot_py. Justin is the owner of Hunchly, creator of two Python coding Books, co- author Automating OSINT with Python course to name a few things. He is a renowned name within the cyber and OSINT community. Join the OSINTcurious crew and Justin…
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Episode 51: What do you need to become an intermediate OSINTer? How can Shodan contribute to OSINT investigations?
Join Technisette (@technisette), Inês (@IWN_LX), Nico (@dutch_osintguy), Micah (@WebBreacher) and Steven (@nixintel) on the newest episode as they discuss the skills needed to become an intermediate OSINTer. How do you improve your OSINT skills? How do you find an OSINT job? Will certificates…
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Episode 50: New stream format, OSINT on the US Capitol Event, crowd-sourced OSINT and law enforcement
Happy New Year! We're back in 2021 with a new format. Today Micah (@WebBreacher), John (@thegumshoo), Steve (@nixintel) and Matthias (@MwOsint) discuss OSINT activities around the recent event at the US Capitol, e.g. how crowd-sourced OSINT can support law enforcement and how content was…
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Episode 49: It's a wrap! Discussion on tools vs. training, creating intelligence products, sharing OSINT techniques and more
In this final episode of The OSINT Curious Project webcast/podcast in 2020, we have an interesting panel discussion for you. Micah, Matthias, and Steven discuss some OSINT topics. People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Steven Harris (@nixintel) Links to…
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Episode 48: Keyword search on Instagram, Scraping Fleets, OSINTDojo, AI-generated photos, Parler searching
People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) Links to what we discussed Nico is tracking all black friday / cyber monday related deals for you: https://github.com/Dutchosintguy/Blackfriday-Deals-2020 Interesting Twitter thread on...
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Episode 47: Samuel Lolagar (OSINTGeek), FireEye VM, Dark Web, Parler, ETags, a bit of SIGINT and collecting info from Youtube videos
Today’s special guest is Samuel Lolagar @osintgeek Samuel’s website: https://osintgeek.de 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...
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Episode 46: Guest Amine Ghoulidi, resources on mis- and disinformation, investigating international phone numbers, Geolocation 10-minute tip and much more!
Today’s special guest Amine (@aityaakub) People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Steven Harris (@nixintel) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Links to what we discussed TOCP Resource List: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources What to do…
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Episode 45: Q&A with the audience, lifting fingerprints from fotos, CONINT, understanding time stamps on social media, Google IDs and more
People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mw_Osint) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Technisette Sector035 Ritu Gill (@OSINTTechniques) John TerBush (@thegumshoo) Links to what we discussed App usage by country: https://www.applyzer.com/?mmenu=worldcharts Top sites worldwide:...
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Episode 44: Guest Julia Bayer, Geolocating without Street View and Google Maps, SOCMINT on foreign social media, FOCA for OSINT, DNS research
This week’s guest is Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia) Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW´s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she…
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Episode 43: Guest Emmanuelle Welch, Maltego for Telegram, Google Account Finder, WIPO Database, Twitter Analysis Framework
This week’s guest is Emmanuelle Welch (@frenchpi) Emmanuelle Welch is a Licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner, and owner of French Connection Research, a private investigative agency in Brooklyn, NY, licensed in New York and Washington, DC. She specializes in white-collar crime...
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Episode 42: New Facebook design, creating sock puppets, Redditor, OSINT on Telegram, WhatsMyName Update
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 (@Dutch_osintguy) Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo) Sector035 (@Sector035)...
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Episode 41: Special Guest Ines Narciso, video search tool Peteyvid, estimating crowd sizes, and more on facial recognition (even for dogs)
Special Guest Inês Narciso (@IWN_LX) – Ines worked in the Portuguese Intelligence Service for 12 years. She started up doing OSINT in 2008 and later became an OSINT and online undercover operations project manager. In 2019, she joined Iscte Iul a Lisbon University where she teaches Digital…
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Episode 40: Geolocating IPs and mobile phones, PimEye, 3D reconstruction of facial images and more...
People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Matthias Wilson (@mwosint) Nixintel Technisette Baywolf88 Links to what we discussed https://www.instagram.com/hushpuppi/?hl=en Big phishing criminal Hushpuppi arrested in Dubai. His Instagram account was well-known for flaunting his wealth....
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Episode 39: Ibexmind with Peter King, Twitter history, aircraft and drone monitoring, TraceLabs OSINT Virtual Machine and more...
People in this Episode Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher) Nico Dekens (@dutch_osintguy) Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae) Nixintel Ginsberg5150 Special Guest: Peter King (@ibexmind) additional info: https://ibexmind.com/ Links to what we discussed https://spoonbill.io/ Shows historic profile and pinned…
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Ep 35: (Originally aired May 3) Guest Aliaume Leroy, a new Verification Handbook released, using birds to help geolocate and more....!
Originally aired May 3, 2020 People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Dutch_OsintGuy Nico Technisette Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Special Guest: Aliaume Leroy (@Yaolri) more info on: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=aliaume+leroy Links to what we discussed https://www.aliseeks.com/search Good resource…
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Ep 34: (Originally aired 19 April) Interview with the famous Arno Reuser, using UntappdScraper for checkin location data, and more
People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Nico (Dutch_OsintGuy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) Sector035 John TerBush (thegumshoo) Special Guest : Arno Reuser (@ArnoReuser) more info on ArnoReuser.com & http://bibliography.opensourceintelligence.biz/ Links to what we...
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Ep. 36: Interview with Jane Lytvynenko on disinfo, the "OSINT State of Mind", cropping images and facial recognition reverse searching and more!
Originally aired May 17, 20202 People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Nixintel John TerBush Rae Baker Lorand Bodo Chris Kubecka Nico Dekens Special Guest: Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) more info on: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko Links to what we discussed...
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Episode 33: We speak with guest Jan Tegze from sourcing.games, analytic thinking, beyond EXIF in photos, and more...
People in this Episode Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Technisette Special Guest : Jan Tegze (@jantegze) more info on sourcing.games Links to what we discussed Training yourself how to be an analytical thinker...
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Episode 32: Chris Poulter from OSINTCombine talks tools and debuts one during the webcast! Also: disinfo during the COVID-19 crisis and more...
People in this Episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Nico (Dutch_Osintguy) Matthias Wilson (MWOsint) Nixintel Lorand Bodo (Lorandbodo) Rae Baker (wondersmith_rae) Kirby Plessas (kirbstr) Special guest: Chris Poulter (@osintcombine) and more info on https://www.osintcombine.com/ Links to what we...
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Episode 31: Jeff Lomas of BleuBloodHound, MWOsint demos the MSFT video indexer and more...
People in this Episode: Micah Hoffman (WebBreacher) Dutch_Osintguy Matthias Wilson (MwOsint) Nixintel Sector035 Special Guest: Jeff Lomas (@BleuBloodHound) Links to what we discussed: Jeff Lomas talked about his blog on cell tower info, DFIR and OSINT...
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Episode 30, A brief chat about WhatsApp, a new OSINT-dedicated Linux build and more..
People in this Episode Ginsberg5150 Nixintel Sector035 Links to what we discussed WhatsApp invite debacle: https://twitter.com/JordanWildon/status/1230829082662842369 Nixintel his short blogpost about it: https://nixintel.info/osint/whatsapp-dorks-and-tricks/ Open source maps and satellite…
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Episode 29: Interview with OSINTTechniques, Google dorking SSIDs, a look at the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash using OSINT and more
People in this Episode Micah Hoffman Dutch_Osintguy Sector035 And our special guest: Ritu Gill aka OsintTechniques Links to what we discussed Tweet by Gonzo about searching SSID’s with a Google dork https://twitter.com/gonzos_int/status/1222541952413065216?s=11 Another good name check lookup...
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Episode 28: Bitcoin with Bellingcat's Brenna Smith, Finding who is running Wordpress even behind Cloudflare, and more
People in this Episode: Ginsberg5150 Dutch_Osintguy Sector035 Kirby Plessas And our special guest: Brenna Smith Links to what we discussed: Archive of Brenna’s CryptOSINT newsletters can be found here https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c435f53a5568f7951404c8a38&id=7f8ca9c380 Our own...
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Episode 27 - OSINT Curious is a year old! And we have Vortimo's Roelof Temmingh!
Webcast 20200112 – #27 People in this Episode Dutch_Osintguy Ginsberg5150 Micah Hoffman Sector035 And our special guest: Roelof Temmingh (VortimoTech) Links to what we discussed Aware online blogs: Searching Telegram via location –...
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The OSINT Curious Project is a source of quality, actionable, Open Source Intelligence news, original blogs, instructional videos, and a bi-weekly webcast/podcast. Most of all, we want to inspire people to look outside of their OSINT-comfort zones and pursue their OSINT passions. We try to keep people curious about exploring web applications for bits of information or trying out new techniques to access important OSINT data.We are an OSINT-learning catalyst.
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