Wednesday Updates #16

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Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• Content Sharing

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Tweets Deck

• Beginner’s Column

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• Tips by Heart

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• OSINT Jobs

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

This Week in OSINT

• Our first technical product is now live at osinters.bio. OSINTers.bio - Create your portfolio as an OSINT researcher. This is just an MVP, new features will be our soon. Create your portfolio for free now, visit OSINTers.bio.

• @LeeLewis_1(founder of UserSearch) launched OSINT Experts & Resources on Reddit. This isn’t going to be another Reddit for OSINT as the mods of subreddit are actual industry professionals including @cyb_detective,

  Stu
  , @Skipvue, @nattyfried, Ritu Gill(@OSINTtechniques) and me(@Dheerajydv19).
  Join it now.

• OSINT’s Substack
  launched a new book, Cryptocurrency Investigations: A Step-by-Step Guide. Want to order?

Content Sharing

Henk van Ess

released a new episode in their podcast series, Do not "summarize this"! Listen to it now.

Blogs Reads

1. Exploring the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database: Unveiling Hidden Global Wealth

2. How to Conduct Telegram Investigations Using OSINT

3. How to Find Water Systems on the Internet: A Guide to ICS/OT OSINT

4. OSINT - Emotions Under the Mircoscope

External Reading

1. Nagorno-Karabakh: Satellite Imagery Shows City-Wide Ransacking

2. How We Uncovered the True Story of 40 Acres and a Mule

3. How Journalism Groups in Africa Are Building AI Tools to Aid Investigations and Fact-Checking

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Lee Lewis(founder of UserSearch) released a series of 35 episodes in the podcast, OSINT Cyber Experts and Resources discussing various topics of OSINT. Listen here.

• Smashing Security Podcast released a new episode, 386: The $230 million crypto handbag heist, and misinformation on social media.

• Privacy Files released a new episode, Security is all about the data.

Tips by Heart

• Forensic OSINT shared some awesome tips for cleaning up your digital footprint. Read more.

• Tools for Reporters
  informed that Google now offers an “About this image” option for results on Image Search. It not only lists where the photo has been published, but links to its sources - plus context on those sources.

• Cyb_detective
  shares a tip for improving face search image results. Read more.

OSINT Events & Challenges

OSINT UK Community has started offering tickets for their two free events, OSINT Unplugged Event (Glasgow) happening on 6th Nov and OSINT, Journalism and the Modern Audience(Community seminar) on 8th Nov. Know more.

Tools Changelog

UserSearch released some exciting upgrades, Project Hawk-Eye which has awesome features like AI Engine, Graph View, Auto-Relationship Analysis. See it live.

OSINT Industries has improved its UI, added some new modules for phone numbers, and fixed some bugs.

OSINT Toolbox

• Ominis-OSINT - Discover online mentions of a query or username. Identify potential social profiles and forums. Tip by @0xtechrock

• Search4faces - a reverse face search engine that can help you to find photos of a person all across the web.

• AllYouCanRead - largest directory of websites(news sites, dating sites, job sites, etc) with country-wise categorization.

• Track Trace - A free online tool that uses a shipping container number to determine which company it belongs to and automatically redirects to the company's website to track it.

• Argus - A Python-based toolkit for Information Gathering and Reconnaissance.

Mystery Box

OSINTtools.io, our OSINT tools directory will be down for some days and will be back with a new look with an amazing collection and other awesome updates.

Missed Last week

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