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 discussed

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!

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.