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 talks.

They moved on discussing & showcasing some tools starting with CCTV Mass Pirates, a map that shows the locations and certain specifications of over 160.000 cameras around the world. Some of the cameras on the map have open feeds, while another data point you may find are Mapillary keys. Mapillary is a service that is crowdsourcing geotagged photos & videos. Combined with the CCTV Mass Pirates map, these tools may prove very useful for investigations where Google StreetView is blocked or non-existent. After that, they talked about Travel Time Map, a tool that draws a travel time area on a map while giving you plenty of options to narrow down your research: travel means (bike, transportation, car, foot), date, time span, and more. These tools can be used on their own, or in combination. For that reason, we also discussed use cases.

Micah and Christina then talked about Image Extractor, a tool that allows users to download/extract all available images from a webpage. They went on highlighting OSINT Dojo as one of the useful resources in our community to practice and learn OSINT skills, but also talked about the Attack Surface Diagrams that are provided in the resources of OSINT Dojo's webpage (view links below).

Later, they discussed the new OSINT Dark Web bookmarks provided by OSINT Combined, a curated list of bookmarks including search engines, services lists, leak sites and other resources that help OSINT investigators conduct research in the dark web.

Last, they briefly discussed the two latest blog posts that were published through OSINT Curious, the team's upcoming streams and some news and activities that our OSINT Curious members have been involved in (including Rae Baker's upcoming OSINT book)!

📚 LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream:

Recon Village: https://reconvillage.org/

GOSINTCon (German speaking OSINT conference): https://gosintcon.de/

Australian OSINT Symposium: https://www.osintsymposium.com/

Layer8 Conference: https://layer8conference.com/2022-back-in-person/

CCTV Mass Pirates: https://cctv.masspirates.org/

Mapillary: https://www.mapillary.com/

Travel Time Map : https://app.traveltime.com/

Image Extractor: https://extract.pics/

OSINT Dojo Diagrams: https://www.osintdojo.com/diagrams/main

OSINT Combined Dark Web Bookmarks: https://www.osintcombine.com/dw-osint-bookmarks

Old Skool OSINT Blog: https://osintcurio.us/2022/08/04/old-skool-osint/

Saving Facebook Blog: https://osintcurio.us/2022/06/14/saving-facebook/

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