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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!
Welcome to the first episode of December 2020! With big list of tips on tools, sharing knowledge about KML, shadows and social media.

Just one more episode to go before my monthly leave kicks in, and so many great articles and links have been shared the last week! It feels like everybody is sharin...

This week an important warning, some nice maps, tips and other things I encountered during my daily scrolling through all my news feeds and social media.

This week it's another interesting episode, starting off with an important warning about extensions and add-ons. Who would have suspected that a...

This week I have something slightly different for you. Not a lot of links, articles, or tools, but a bunch of interesting Google searches and how the 'developer tools' of your browser can help to get to the bottom of the info.

Due to calling in sick, I had to shorten this weeks episode. Of course...

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.