Ep 34: (Originally aired 19 April) Interview with the famous Arno Reuser, using UntappdScraper for checkin location data, and more

People in this Episode

• Micah Hoffman

• Nico (Dutch_OsintGuy)

• Matthias Wilson (MWOsint)

• Nixintel

• Kirby Plessas (kirbstr)

• Sector035

• John TerBush (thegumshoo)

• Special Guest : Arno Reuser (@ArnoReuser (twitter.com/ArnoReuser)) more info on ArnoReuser.com & bibliography.opensourceintelligence.biz (bibliography.opensourceintelligence.biz )

Links to what we discussed

• intelx.io The site hosts breach data that are easily searchable (for free)! We spoke about this in regards to its scraping of Pastebin pastes. If you have a paid account, you can access them.

• untappd.osint.ninja This page is the webification of the UntappdScraper script Micah made. Makes it easy to analyze user-reported drinking behavior.

• twitter.com/MwOsint/status/1249416474600628226 Another source for company research is import/export data. Find out who does business with a company and which means of transportation they use. The tweet depicts one example for such a (paid) database, in some countries this data is freely accessible

• groundwork.azavea.com Annotation tool designed for geospatial data, useful for osint geo related research

• medium.com/@Dutchosintguy/start-caring-stop-sh… Blog by Dutch_Osintguy about the human factor in cyber and how easy it can be for bad actors to gain access to certain video calling session by using basic osint techniques

• github.com/mattnotmax/cyberchef-recipes Great Cyberchef recipes which can be used for OSINT and cyber

• twitter.com/olihough86/status/1250514824255221… Pastebin has disabled its search function, even for Pro customers. This is bad news for OSINT because Pastebin was such a valuable resource, especially for threat intel.

• techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/clearview-source-cod… This is more privacy than OSINT but the Clearview AI application source code and other files were found in a public location.

Self Promotion

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• Kirby is teaching online OSINT classes. Visit academy.plessas.net for more details.

• Micah and Dutch_Osintguy will be doing OSINT SEC487 SANS Live Online trainings in the coming months. Visit sans.org/find-training/search?types=10&cou… for details.