Episode 42: New Facebook design, creating sock puppets, Redditor, OSINT on Telegram, WhatsMyName Update

Welcome back!

We are back with a brand new episode after our one-month summer break! In this week’s episode, we catch up with the latest OSINT news, as usual!

People in this Episode

• Micah Hoffman (@webbreacher (twitter.com/webbreacher))

• Nico Dekens (@Dutch_osintguy (twitter.com/dutch_osintguy))

• Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo (twitter.com/LorandBodo))

• Sector035 (@Sector035 (twitter.com/Sector035))

• Technisette (@technisette (twitter.com/technisette))

• Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae (twitter.com/wondersmith_rae))

What we discussed

• A big thank you to all our sponsors and Patreon patrons (osintcurio.us/sponsors-and-contributors) who have been supporting us!

• Learn how to create a sock puppet account for your OSINT investigations here (osintcurio.us/2020/08/17/creating-research-acc…)

• Learn about the main differences between the old and new Facebook design here (osintcurio.us/2020/08/19/facebook-classic-vs-n…)

• Check out this new OSINT tool, called Redditor (rdddeck.com). It’s similar to Tweetdeck but just for Reddit

• Need some new OSINT resources? Then check out this amazing collection (start.me/p/DPYPMz/the-ultimate-osint-collection)

• Dutch's talk about leveraging Telegram for OSINT purposes (youtube.com/watch?v=e_aXQYq2l6U)

• Sinwindie’s attack surface for Twitter (twitter.com/sinwindie/status/1297570256546746368). For similar flow charts, click here (github.com/sinwindie/OSINT)

• Interested in detecting deep fakes? Microsoft has launched a new tool (blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/01/d…)to detect them

• Here’s a great thread about some of the most popular dark net markets (twitter.com/DarkDotFail/status/129944383222899…). Get free and daily updates about new dark net sites (hunch.ly/darkweb-osint)

• Update about PimEye (twitter.com/MwOsint/status/1301532181714685952)twitter.com/MwOsint/status/1301532181714685952– a facial search engine

• Wanna track ‘dictators’? Check out this website (dictatoralert.org) that tracks aircraft associated with specific countries

• New updates for SentinelHub (twitter.com/sentinel_hub/status/12913807444730…)

• Also new updates for WhatsMyName (whatsmyname.app) – a username search engine developed by Micah in collaboration with OSINTCombine and many others.

• Search for 393+ million US court records on JudyRecords (judyrecords.com)

• Practice OSINT and work on real cases. Tracelabs (tracelabs.org) has announced monthly OSINT Search Party CTFs!

Self Promotion

• Micah will be at the OSINT Symposium in Australia and OSMOSISCon (osmosiscon.com) in October

• Rae will be presenting at the Bsides conference in Copenhagen (bsideskbh.sessionize.com) on 18/19 September

• Lisette will be presenting at OSMOSISCon (osmosiscon.com) in October – check out hernew website (technisette.com/p/home) too