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Here you can find all the published articles (still migrating some from Medium. Including your weekly dose of OSINT news published every Monday at 8:00 AM CEST!
It has taken well over 7 years before this geolocation challenge was resolved, and I have spent countless hours on trying to find this years ago. Sadly enough, work and other priorities had taken over my life, so the last three years I didn't have time to look at it at all. Until recently, when I ma...
Within the last decade or so I have the feeling that 'OSINT' simply has become a buzzword, and loads of companies and startups want to jump on the bandwagon to try and earn some extra money with it. But with that, I also noticed a very dangerous development within the field of open source intelligen...
This page contains a list of extensions, and their respective Manifest versions. In Week in #OSINT 2024-22, I wrote about the upcoming changes within the Chromium based browser extensions. This page contains a list of extensions that use the newer Manifest V3, and should be (somewhat) future proof.
Week in OSINT turned five years old on May 20, 2023 and to celebrate I wanted to share a bit more insight into the person behind all this OSINT madness.
For about 4 years The OSINT Curious Project has been an important part of my life. And I am still proud I was a member, and help to share knowledge with the OSINT community.
It was late 2018, and Technisette contacted me and Benjamin Strick to ask whether we would like to speak at a conference...
In this blog post I review the Dark Waters scenario, that is going live on March 15, 2023. It is a fun, and novel way to practice your OSINT skills!
A comprehensive guide to determining dates and times in (online) media
In this article I'll be diving into the world of chronolocation, metadata and shadows. Since this is the largest article I've written so far, I've decided to create a table of contents for your convenience. At the end of every...
Metadata is data that provides information on other data. Within digital media, like photos or videos, it contains things like the creation date, location it was recorded, the applications used for editing, or even information about the creator of the item. This data is stored within the file itself...
