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Here you can find all the published articles (still migrating some from Medium. Including your weekly dose of OSINT news published every Monday at 8:00 AM CEST!
Here we are again, with some beautiful bangs, facial features, sources for socks and valuable VPN's.

Welcome to the Monday with another set of interesting topics, articles and tips. I'm really grateful for people tagging me on Twitter, or sharing links in Slack channels and chat rooms. So many gre...

A second part on my journey into the world of Google ID's

In December last year I think I wrote one of my most successful articles yet, on how to trace a possible identity via a Gmail address. But life and work happened, and even though I discovered a lot more things, I never had the time and po...

Another week, another small collection of the OSINT news from last week.

Last week a lot of investigative journalists showed their concerns about Terraserver moving their business to PrecisionHawk. Especially since they provided one of the more affordable services when it comes to high resolution...

A fairly small update this week, due to a very busy weekend.

Wow, what a weekend this has been! I’ve had an all-nighter due to participating in the Trace Labs missing persons CTF. This was the second time that I was able to participate and I am proud to have worked together with salaheldinaz,...

After my ‘Week in OSINT #2019–49’ went live, I received questions about Google userID’s, how you can find them and what you can actually do with them. So I decided it was time to write a short article about it.

Update: On May 25, 2020 I posted part II with some more hints and tips.

Welcome to December, here are some interesting links about Google and Greynoise, mapping and mobiles, scraping and searching!

Good morning all! It was a very interesting week in the world of OSINT links. This week I managed to scrape together a nice list of interesting things to go over:

  • Googl...

Just before my last Medium post went online earlier this week, I suddenly thought back about all the newly launched websites or updated tools that have been reaching my eyes year after year. And despite the fact I will never use each and every OSINT tool that is out there, it would still be a waste...