Wednesday Updates #2

Highlights: 6 blogs, 4 external reading, 7 videos, 3 podcast episodes, 4 event updates, 4 awesome tools, a meme and many more.

Hello, our dear reader, welcome to our weekly newsletter, “Wednesday Updates", a hub for all your new tools, tactics and techniques, and emerging trends in the OSINT world.

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Wednesday Updates #1

Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• OSINT Jobs

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

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This Week in OSINT

• Das Bule has written an awesome blog on Secjuice about OSINT UK community highlighting its need, vision and mission. Read more.

• Twitter has done policy changes last week and had make likes private. Read more.

  Blogs Reads

1. unmasking the identity of the owner of smutty

2. Guide to Shodan Dorks and Cybersecurity Best Practices (2024)

3. Building a Versatile Threat Intelligence Program for Any Environment

4. OSINT background search from limited data

5. Part 1 (Basics): OSINT for Cryptocurrency Investigation

6. What a GPS/GNSS device in a cigarette pack taught me about OSINT and the IoT

External Reading

1. Everything About Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) and Investigations

2. Threat Intelligence and Integration of OSINT

3. Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

4. Everything About Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) and Investigations

   Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

• Listen this awesome episode, 376: iOS 18 for cheaters, and a model cop extortionist? about new privacy feature in iOS and a model cop arrested for extortion.

• Listen this another awesome episode, S3E73 | OSINT for executive protection about how he uses OSINT to protect executive clients, resources for cybers students and best tools for real-time monitoring.

OSINT Events & Challenges

1. The first in-person meeting of OSINT.uk is just a week away, its happening on 26th July in London. Reserve your free ticket now. Want to join, register at OSINT.uk

2. SocialLinks is back with one more awesome webinar on topic, Investigating Drug Trafficking with OSINT on 27th JUNE, 1PM CET.

3. Animal Welfare Investigations Project is hosting an online webinar on the topic, Combating Cruelty: How AWIP is Tackling Dog Fighting on 28th June. Watch the webinar to understand how they use intelligence to tackle these situations.

4. Reminder: Lehack is back with its 2024 edition. Checkout the conference tracks and speaker details on their website.

Tools Changelog

No interesting update in popular OSINT tools.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Namsor - a name checker for gender, origin and ethnicity determination. Tip by @HolismVision

2. GeneU - an AI tool that can be useful for analyzing similarity of faces with major ethnic groups around the world. Tip by @HolismVision

3. Ominis-OSINT - Discover online mentions of a query or username. Identify potential social profiles and forums.

4. PhishDetect - A python tool to detect malicious and phishing domains.

Mystery Box

https://start.me/p/p1Ba7E/basic-osint-tools - A collection of basic OSINT tools shared by the official twitter handle of StartMe.

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Missed Last week

Website Informer - a free website lookup tool

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