The OSINT Curious Project

Episode 44: Guest Julia Bayer, Geolocating without Street View and Google Maps, SOCMINT on foreign social media, FOCA for OSINT, DNS research

The OSINT Curious Project

Show Notes

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 researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom.

People in this Episode

Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)

Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint)

Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)

Nixintel (@nixintel)

Sector035 (@sector035)

Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)

Links to what we discussed

OSINTCurious blog post by Technisette: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/28/when-there-is-no-google-earth-or-street-view-what-can-you-do/

Blog by Matthias Wilson: SOCMINT on foreign platforms: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/04/social-media-around-the-world/

Updated browser extension by OSINTSupport: https://osint.support/chrome-extensions/2019/09/29/osint-socmint-tooling.html

Google dorks to access confidential information: https://benjaminstrick.com/dear-x-your-staff-passwords-numbers-and-confidential-data-is-on-google/

Blog post by Nixintel: https://nixintel.info/osint/do-dns-records-prove-that-jim-watkins-is-q/

Blog post by Rae Baker: https://medium.com/@raebaker/using-foca-for-osint-document-metadata-analysis-6745c8d709fa

Search for emojis: https://www.fastemoji.com/

Update by Telegram: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1311591571498971136

2020 OSINT tools & resources handbook by @i_intelligence: https://i-intelligence.eu/resources/osint-toolkit

FREE online investigative training course for journalists: https://twitter.com/KnightCenterUT/status/1312508586216497153

Create your own bookmarks database: https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-database-with-bookmarks/

Thread on how to investigate websites: https://twitter.com/aware_online/status/1308312883248467975

How discover relationships between websites using Maltego: https://www.maltego.com/blog/tracing-internet-relationships-with-maltego/

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