In our vast, interconnected digital world, information is the ultimate currency. For cyber defenders, the ability to gather, analyze, and act upon information is what separates success from failure. It’s also the purview of OSINT, which in the context of cybersecurity, represents the art of turning the endless sea...
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...
In the dynamic landscape of open-source intelligence, investigators are continually searching for reliable methods that deliver actionable results. Among these, reverse image search has emerged as a cornerstone OSINT technique, employed by intelligence professionals, law enforcement agencies, investigative journalists, and security researchers worldwide. Social Links have led the way in...
Social media has become a double-edged sword. While it connects billions of users worldwide, it also presents a growing risk landscape. Phishing scams, misinformation campaigns, and brand impersonation are just a few of the cyber threats that thrive on social platforms. Yet the same data that makes social media a...
At a time when our lives are becoming ever more integrated with the online realm, dating apps have become a new norm. And their stellar rise in popularity is hardly to be wondered at. After all, a lot of people simply don’t have large enough social circles—or a...
The verb “to google” has been a fixture of the English dictionary for some time now, highlighting just how synonymous the engine’s proprietary name is with the action of finding information online. And considering Google processes a staggering 5.9 million searches every minute, this linguistic status should come...
