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2022-09-01 14:13:01 A Cyber Threat Intelligence Self-Study Plan: Part 2
https://medium.com/katies-five-cents/a-cyber-threat-intelligence-self-study-plan-part-2-d04b7a529d36
t’s been a while, but here it is — part 2 of my cyber threat intelligence (CTI) self-study plan. This is much later than I intended, but life happens. It has been wonderful to hear feedback on how part 1 helped many people learn more about CTI, and I truly appreciate everyone who reached out to say that this helped them. You all are the reason I created part 2, and I hope it’s just as helpful. For background on this plan and how I recommend using it, please read my first post. This post covers four topics:

- OSINT and Open Sources
- Pivoting
- Clustering, Naming, and Creating Groups
- Attribution Open / Comment

2022-09-01 09:08:09 Week in OSINT #2022-32 - sector035 - Video Speed Control
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/gioehmkjkeamcinbdelehlpnpdcdjpdp
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/video-speed-control/
To continue on the last tip, about changing video speeds in the Twitter mobile app, here's a handy addon for your browser. It works with any HTML5 based video service, whether it's Twitter or Netflix, and you can change the playback speed instantly. Simply install the addon or extension in your browser, reload the page in case you have the desired video open, and enjoy a slow motion or sped up version. Open / Comment

2022-08-31 14:13:01 A Cyber Threat Intelligence Self-Study Plan: Part 1
https://medium.com/katies-five-cents/a-cyber-threat-intelligence-self-study-plan-part-1-968b5a8daf9a
There are many ways to learn. While some people prefer to have a live instructor in a course, others are great at doing self-study. I teach SANS FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence, which is a great course if you want to learn about cyber threat intelligence (CTI), but I realize not everyone can afford it.

Here’s the good news: if you are committed, you can learn a lot of the same concepts that paid courses teach, but on your own. It won’t be the same, but you can still learn a ton if this learning style works for you. I wanted to share a self-study plan to help out anyone who wants to take the initiative to learn about CTI. There are lots of great resources out there, but I realize as you’re starting out that someone saying “go look at all the things!” isn’t that helpful because you’re not sure where to look. My goal is to bring together free resources I’d recommend studying and provide a minimal framework and question to help tackle them. Open / Comment

2022-08-31 09:08:09 Week in OSINT #2022-32 - sector035 - Twitter Video Playback

If you are like me, and sometimes want to quickly look or verify something using your mobile, Twitter has got you covered since earlier this year. When you are viewing a video on the mobile app, it now offers playback speeds by tapping the settings on the top. Sadly enough this option isn't available in the web version (yet). Open / Comment

2022-08-30 14:13:01 stweet
https://github.com/markowanga/stweet
A modern fast python library to scrap tweets and users quickly from Twitter unofficial API.

This tool helps you to scrap tweets by a search phrase, tweets by ids and user by usernames. It uses the Twitter API, the same API is used on a website. Open / Comment

2022-08-30 09:08:09 Week in OSINT #2022-32 - sector035 - Creating Panoramas

Link: https://www.aware-online.com/en/video-investigations-converting-images-to-a-panorama/
Autostitch: http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

Over at the blog of Aware Online, I stumbled upon a new tutorial about how to take a video and create a panorama view of a scene using the freely available tool AutoStitch. The tool is fairly straight forward, and by providing it with a link of extracted images from a video, it will try to generate a panorama with the given data. A very useful tool when working with geolocation tasks. Open / Comment

2022-08-29 14:13:14 Contact Details Scraper
https://github.com/vdrmota/Social-Media-and-Contact-Info-Extractor

Scraping contact details can give you a fast way to get lead generation data for your marketing and sales teams. Harvesting contact details can help you populate and maintain an up-to-date database of contacts, leads, and prospective customers. Instead of manually visiting web pages and copy-pasting names and numbers, you can extract the data and rapidly sort it in spreadsheets or feed it directly into your existing workflow. Open / Comment

2022-08-29 09:08:10 Week in OSINT #2022-32 - sector035 - Travelling Distance
Link: https://chronotrains-eu.vercel.app
Link: https://direkt.bahn.guru
Back in this episode I mentioned the tool TravelTime, to calculate the distance that could be travelled using different modes of transport. Twitter user TRADECRAFT shared two similar sites, that show the distance that can be travelled with public transport within Europe. Created by Benjamin Td and Julius Tens, these maps give you a quick overview of what European locations one can reach within several hours. Open / Comment

2022-08-29 00:39:03 Week in OSINT #2022-32 - sector035 - GPSJam Map
https://gpsjam.org/
John Wiseman had a look at freely available ADS-B information, and especially the uncertainty and accuracy indicators. By collecting and filtering such information, and plotting them on a map, he has created a global map that shows where in the world GPS signals seem to be jammed. If you want to know some more details, in this Twitter thread he explains how his map is precisely built. Thank you, Max Bernhard for sharing this tip with me! Open / Comment

2022-08-28 14:13:14 I Do NOT Want To Visit This Website
https://osintcurio.us/2022/08/15/i-do-not-want-to-visit-this-website/
There are a million of reasons why you might not want to visit a particular website. Maybe it’s your competitor and you do not want him/her to notice you are ‘watching’ them. Or maybe you’re in an investigation where you do not want your target to be alarmed by any visits. So how can you figure out what is on a website, without paying a visit? Well, we’ve got many options lined up for you:
Online Archives Open / Comment