Wednesday Updates #36

we are upgrading our newsletter, lots of new blogs and articles, yt vidoes, one podcast episode and tools.

Welcome to last issue of Wednesday Updates. As we will soon be a family of 3k+ lovely OSINTers, it’s time for us to do some awesome stuff.

From now on wards, our weekly updates newsletter will be published every Saturday at 10AM US Time. Why we are doing these changes? you will get to know soon.

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Wednesday Updates #35

Today’s Newsletter includes -

• Content Sharing

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

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Content Sharing

• MJ Banias
  shared an awesome post in
  Bullsh*t Hunting
  , A Free OSINT Lesson: Search Indexes, Record Shops, and Flipping through Vinyl.

• OSINT Switzerland shared a post on LinkedIn revealing about metadata in images shared via LinkedIn messages. Read full post.

• Tech Enthusiast aka @CtPrecious shared some awesome resources for learning OSINT in this thread. See the list.
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Blogs Reads

1. Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

2. Investigating Email Addresses with OSINT

3. The Death of OSINT: How Open-Source Intelligence Lost Its Edge in an Overhyped World

4. Investigating US Government — and Trump Adminstration — Influence in Your Country

External Reading

1. From Open-Source to All-Source: Leveraging Local Knowledge for Atrocity Prevention

2. How OSINT awareness can mitigate social engineering attacks

3. Using OSINT for Employee Protection at Insurance Carriers

4. The Story of a Storm - Part 1: Visualising Climate Data with NASA’s Giovanni Tool

5. CIRCIA & the Future of Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

Smashing Security Podcast released a new episode, History's biggest heist just happened, and online abuse discussing about the recent Bybit hack.

OSINT Events & Challenges

BellingCat Open-Source Challenges are back. Test your open source research skills with these challenges. Checkout them now at challenge.bellingcat.com
Shall we start writing writeups of these challenges? If you want, tell us in comments.

Tools Changelog

@OSINTindustries added two new modules expanding into niche community platforms. They have also done some updates in their LinkedIn module.

OSINT Toolbox

• Clipto.AI - Get your audio and video files transcribed by the world's best AI transcription service, with 99% accuracy for over 99 languages.

• Exa - AI tool to search and crawl the web.

• CHRONOS - go tool to download and analyze archive org snapshots.

• FreeWareWeb FTP Search - Old FTP servers engine. Allows to find even files from the 90s and 2000s (but 2020s too). Lots of advanced search filters.

• FBI Crime Data Explorer (stats by USA states) - How many percent of people are killed by their boyfriends and girlfriends? How many times more likely are men to be murder victims than women? Which properties are most likely to be robbed?

Mystery Box

BellingCat Open-Source Challenges are back. Test your open source research skills with these challenges. Checkout them now at challenge.bellingcat.com
Shall we start writing writeups of these challenges? If you want, tell us in comments.

GIJN published a post sharing a List of Non-Governmental Data Alternatives and Archives. View the list.

Missed Last week

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