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API’s and onions, locations and leaks…

What a week it has been! First there was a huge dump of the Iron March forum, then Vortimo got accepted by Google (planning a review of that later on) and I also found way too many awesome links to share! It doesn’t look so much with only four topics, but the...

A short weekly update, due to other priorities, with a scam, a book, a tool and an article!

I was able to enjoy some offline time last week and get some rest from daily life. Gathering energy to dive into a malware campaign, preparing sheets for some talks, and of course to keep this newsletter up...

Time for Tweets, tutorials, tips and tricks in this weeks Week in OSINT!

Hello again on this Monday with another episode of Week in OSINT. Again some interesting news, links and tips for everybody to start their OSINT-y week.

• Tweeplers
• CryptOsint
• Bazzell v7
• LinkedIn Search
• Site Search
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A new phenomenon that injects your Google Calendar with spam, a basic guide into a small investigation

Well, that was a first! I received a notification this morning that one of my many Google accounts had an invitation to uhm… Receive money? And it would repeat this for 30 days in a row, probably...

This story is about the time I found a flaw in a ticket site some time ago, but since I was extremely busy in 2018 I never got around to write it down. But I finally took the time to share a little story of how a badly configured website can be used to break into a house.

Using a popular agile project management tool to gather intelligence on companies

Last week I notified a friend, who works at the public broadcasting service in the Netherlands, that their Jira board was exposed to the internet. Shortly after my notification the complete board was pulled offline,...

After last week's Week in OSINT I received a lot of positive feedback, so I gave my best to round up some more interesting sites, tools and news for you.

Let's first start with a quick overview of the topics:

• GDPR and WHOIS
• Tweetdeck, Feedreader and Chirp
• Scumblr
• OSINT on IP addresses
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Just before my last Medium post went online earlier this week, I suddenly thought back about all the newly launched websites or updated tools that have been reaching my eyes year after year. And despite the fact I will never use each and every OSINT tool that is out there, it would still be a waste...