The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #100
5 Ethical Ways to Develop Your OSINT Skill Set
👋 Welcome to the 100th issue of The OSINT Newsletter. This issue contains OSINT news, community posts, tactics, techniques, and tools to help you become a better investigator. My goal with this newsletter is to help promote the OSINT industry, develop better investigators, and raise awareness of ethical use cases for open source intelligence.
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⚡ Offline OSINT: Local Search Tools and Methods
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OSINT News
📰 Public GitHub Repositories from News Organizations
Open Journalism delivers a biweekly update of open source projects published by news organizations. Sometimes tools, datasets, or other useful bits of information, make sure show your support for this great project.
🎩 H/T: Scott Klein
📰 Changes in Google Programmable Search Engines
There are changes coming to custom search engines in Google. They will no longer have the option to do a full web. Many OSINT tools are built on the back of custom search engines. If you use any, it might be time to diversify.
🎩 H/T: Henri Beek
📰 Open-source intelligence shuts down
This article highlights something I’ve mentioned often, becoming too reliant on datasets being available and eventually being disrupted by changes. Satellite images of the area affected in the ongoing war in Iran have been blocked or removed. Many research projects rely on regular access to these images for humanitarian purposes or otherwise.
Read on The Economist… | No Paywall
OSINT Tools
🔎 WireTapper
This is a niche tool. It may even be somewhat of a grey tool. Using the Wigle, WPA Sec, OpenCellID, and Shodan API keys, WireTapper provides insight into location-based technical data from passive sources.
🎩 H/T: h9zdev
🔎 Deaddrop
Another Telegram search engine. Always build redundancy. Search for content within a scraped Telegram archive and find information that isn’t indexed by search engines.
🎩 H/T: The OSINT Consultants
🔎 LootBin
Termbin is like Pastebin but through the command line. LootBin helps you gather information from Termbin, another source not indexed by search engines.
🎩 H/T: gustqvo432
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⚡5 Ethical Ways to Develop Your OSINT Skill Set
Developing an OSINT skill set is valuable for a variety of roles. I’ve seen OSINT used everywhere from recruiting for HR departments to tracking Elon Musk’s airplane. If you’re looking for ways to build your skill set ethically, you’ve come to the right place. If you practice all 5 methods even once, you’ll be noticeably better.
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