Wednesday Updates #7

Highlights: 8 blogs, 5 external reading, 2 videos, 1 podcast episodes, 1 new challenge, 2 tool updates, 4 awesome tools, a resource collection 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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Today’s Newsletter includes -

• This Week in OSINT

• Blogs Reads

• External Reading

• Videos Worth Watching

• OSINT Podcasts

• OSINT Events & Challenges

• Tools Changelog

• OSINT Toolbox

• Mystery Box

• Missed Last week

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This Week in OSINT

1. First meetup of OSINT Uk community has been a huge success. More than 100+ has atteneded the event and enjoyed the event. Industry Professionals like William R, Stephen Adams and Daniel Heinen has done presentation on some intersting topics which can be accssed using the below link.
   Presentation Slides

2. Apple Maps in now avalailable on website. Anyone can use it via thier website without needing any Apple Device.
   https://beta.maps.apple.com/

3. Creators of UserSearch Platform has created a linkedIn group where they are sharing some awesome stuff related to OSINT.
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Blogs Reads

1. Mastering Username Enrichment: Techniques for Advanced OSINT

2. What is OSINT? Are there other intelligence-gathering disciplines?

3. Comprehensive OSINT CTI Report on the Government of Canada

4. Is Your OSINT Data Fake?

5. Using Sketches To Geolocate Visuals of Violent Bannu Protests

6. OSINT Tools for the Tech-Challenged

7. Leveraging Data Breaches for OSINT: A Deep Dive into the Digital Underground

8. The Future Of Background Checks: Integrating OSINT And AI

External Reading

1. Getting Started with OSINT: A Beginner's Guide

2. Top 5 Due Diligence Disasters That Cost Companies Millions

3. Investigating Russia’s Proliferating Use — And Supply — Of Attack Drones Against Ukraine

4. How OSINT Can Combat the Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Trade

5. Construction Accelerates at Planned Russian Navy Base in Disputed Abkhazia

Videos Worth Watching

OSINT Podcasts

Listen to this awesome episode, Venezuela Presidential Elections by James Intelligence where they discusses about how the use of open-source intelligence helps to provide predictive analysis of situations in a relatively closed environment such at Venezuela.

OSINT Events & Challenges

OSMOSIS Associate has brought a new CTF for OSINT lovers happening on 2 Aug, 11 AM EST. Click here to know more.

Tools Changelog

1. Lol Archiver has released following new modules - email/phone number to Venmo, Jamble.

2. OSINT Industries has launched a new product. They have allowed a username checker which is avaliable for free but you need atleast one credit to use it.

OSINT Toolbox

1. Avoc - a GEOINT tool that combines multiple map providers and view modes in one single interface, equipped with a series of companion tools for quickly accessing georeferenced resources.

2. Horus - an all-in-one encompassing tool for investigations assistance, from API leveraging to compiling data too. Its your pre-ops buddy!

3. Name Variant Search - A tool for searching common variations of a human name.

4. Discord Sensor Bot - It can find deleted messages, avatars, servers, friends and Discord user nicknames for free.

Mystery Box

Company Registry by Country - A list of links to resources (mostly governmental) for collecting information on legal business entities in over 60 different countries.
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