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2022-04-29 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 16 - sector035 - US Legality and Scraping
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

Zack Whittaker has covered the latest news on legal issues concerning web scraping in the US. It may not seem to be important for some people, and others may not understand the difficulty here, but I do think it's a good idea to read the article. It clearly shows how the rules within the terms of service can be overruled by the law. This of course doesn't mean this outcome will be the same in other states or countries, but it does send a positive signal to journalists and researchers. Open / Comment

2022-04-28 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 16 - sector035 - Spectator Earth
Link: https://spectator.earth/

API: https://api.spectator.earth/
Some time ago Twitter user OSINT_Research shared a link to the website of Spectator, that features a range of tools for satellite imagery. It has easy access to freely available imagery by Sentinel and Landsat, and they even provide API access in case you want to automatically monitor an area. And don't think that it only features imagery in natural colour, because if you need an NVDI filter, or specific bands, that too is available. Open / Comment

2022-04-27 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 16 - sector035 - Quiztime Walk Through



Twitter user Nattic has been solving Quiztime challenges for a while now, and some time ago he started creating YouTube videos of his work process. This video shows how important it is to pay attention to small details, and also how spacial awareness can result in solving a seemingly difficult quiz with ease. A great look into the art of geolocation that's worth to check out. Open / Comment

2022-04-26 14:13:01 https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWLKGxtgFK/ Open / Comment

2022-04-26 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 16 - sector035 - WeVerify
https://innovation.dw.com/weverify-digital-content-analysis-and-verification-recap-of-another-successfully-completed-project/
Link: Chrome extension

In this article Jochen Spangenberg from DW looks back at many years of development of the WeVerify tool. Initially starting as the InVID project, this tool is now one of the most important tools used by factcheckers all over the world. It contains a range of image, text and video verification tools in the browser. Even though the project has officially ended last year, it may continue via a new project that is in the last stage of proposals. Let's hope it keeps being developed! Open / Comment

2022-04-25 14:13:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 15 - sector035 - CBR OSINT CTF

Link: https://tryhackme.com/jr/cbrosintctf
Twitter user @IFLinfosec created an OSINT CTF over at TryHackMe, where he added some of the CTF questions from SecTalks Canberra. You'll need some Google skills, knowledge about social media, and some clever thinking to answer some of these questions. Thanks for putting this together! Open / Comment

2022-04-25 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 15 - sector035 - On Google Queries

Link: https://kinsta.com/blog/google-search-operators/
When I was testing Redditle and Webmii, I found out that they returned no results after only a couple of searches. Since both websites are basically performing a Google search, or run a CSE in the background, we all know what happens. Google doesn't seem to like multiple queries in rapid succession, especially when using advanced search operators. At that moment, you need some way to overcome a CAPTCHA. Both Webmii and Redditle don't have anything to do so, and you'll find yourself with a website that isn't returning anything after a few minutes. So make sure to practice manual Google searches, because nothing beats some good old manual labour!

And to help you out a bit more, here's a fairly recent blog post by Matteo Duò, where he discusses 40 different Google search operators. Open / Comment

2022-04-24 19:18:01 Mr.Holmes
Mr.Holmes is a information gathering tool (OSINT). The main purpose is to gain information about domains,username and phone numbers with the help of public source avaiable on the internet also it use the google dorks attack for specific researchers. It also use proxies for make your requests completley anonymous and a WhoIS Api for getting more information about a domain.
https://github.com/Lucksi/Mr.Holmes Open / Comment

2022-04-24 14:13:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 15 - sector035 - Hadzy
Link: https://hadzy.com/
Ritu Gill shared a new website that is able to load YouTube comments, let you search through them, shows statistics on them and even features a word cloud for some basic sentiment. The tool Hadzy seems to be a really useful and very easy to use tool to quickly find what you need within the world of YouTube videos. Open / Comment

2022-04-24 09:08:01 Week in OSINT #2022- 15 - sector035 - Redditle
Link:https://redditle.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/greentfrapp/redditle

Over at Discord I stumbled upon a really nice link, shared by SlayerLarom#1204. It's basically a Google search, but with a nice frontend, and without the advertisement we all love so much And for once, this is a tool that even has the source code published on GitHub. So if you want to, you could even host your own search engine! Open / Comment