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TOP Social Media API Data Providers

According to DataReportal (2025), there are now over 5.17 billion active social media users worldwide, representing more than 64% of the global population. For businesses, social platforms have evolved far beyond communication channels — they’ve become some of the largest and most valuable sources of data. Manual data collection...

TOP APIs for Background Checks & Due Diligence (2025)

Why APIs Are a Game-Changer for Background Checks & Due Diligence In 2025, as companies operate in increasingly complex and regulated environments, traditional, manual methods for screening individuals and organizations just don’t cut it. * Widespread adoption: Background screening has become standard practice — 95% of employers conduct at least one...

Dark Web Intelligence: A Security Essential

The Dark Web—that notorious part of the internet that runs on hidden networks like Tor and I2P—has become a real-time barometer for gauging future cybercriminal attack. Dark Web Intelligence (DWI) is the structured collection, analysis, and use of data from these hidden spaces. It shows when stolen logins...

Structuring the Unstructured: Exploring the OSINT Framework

In the vast, chaotic ocean of publicly available information, an investigator without a process is adrift. The sheer volume of data sources can be overwhelming. Even a powerful toolkit is useless without a methodology to guide their application. This is the critical role of an OSINT framework: to provide the...

Link Analysis: Lifeblood of the Modern Investigation

Imagine the classic police-room evidence board covered in photos and documents, and interconnected by strings, with the detectives sitting back trying to identify patterns, establish connections, and so on. This technique, in essence, is link analysis—only, with today’s tech,  the data involved can be scaled up to a...

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