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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!
Week in OSINT #2020-31
After a month of absence, I'm back with a brand new Week in OSINT! With some sites for Twitter, tips for Facebook and other interesting links!

I enjoyed a month off, where I've been focussing on migrating some content to a new place on the internet. I also have been busy writing a bit more, collec...

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Keeping a Grip on GoogleID’s
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...

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Week in OSINT #2020-15
One day later, but still your weekly update with interesting links about open source investigation.

Yesterday was Easter Monday and the regular Week in OSINT was slightly different! Several weeks ago I added something extra in one of the episodes, to give some inquisitive people a chance to puzzle...

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Week in OSINT #2020-10
A small overview of interesting things that caught my OSINT-aware eye last week.

While I've been extremely busy last week with work and doing some catching up on digital forensic techniques, the rest of the Twitterverse and beyond shared lots of nice links. I know it's just a small section of ever...

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Week in OSINT #2020-09
Social media tips and tools, follow the money, some JavaScript and Vortimo.

Hello and welcome to the OSINT overview of week 9! There were loads of links that I received and found, but it was so much that I couldn’t find the time to write about it all! So here are my 5 picks for last week:

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Week in OSINT #2020-02
The year 2020 has started, and Week in OSINT is back! Time to bring some tools, tips and tricks to your screen!

When I started this newsletter in May 2018, about 80 or so episodes ago, I couldn’t suspect what impact this would have on my life. Throughout the last two years I’ve been lucky to meet...

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Getting a Grasp on GoogleID’s
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.

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