Investigative journalism has long played a critical role in exposing human rights violations, holding perpetrators accountable, and bringing injustices to light. However, uncovering the truth in areas with ongoing conflict has always been a challenging endeavour. These violations that infringe upon the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals often take place in locations of difficult... Continue Reading →
A Year of OSINT Exercises Insights: Unveiling Patterns & Trends
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) On 27 January 2023, I published my first OSINT Exercise page, aiming to offer free educational content in the form of well structured OSINT challenges. My objective was two-fold: teaching beginners the fundamentals of finding data, verifying data, and analysing data,... Continue Reading →
Indoor Geolocation: Coordinates of a Cake
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Indoor geolocations are a special type of fun. Despite the premise being very similar to “normal” outdoor geolocations, the methods employed are significantly different. You cannot rely on image reverse search, landmark identification, or even the “I’m-desperate-enough-to-scan-this-entire-town-in-the-hopes-of-finding-the-damn place” technique. Indoor geolocations... Continue Reading →
Geolocating excavators attempting to halt Wagner Group rebellion convoy headed to Moscow, Russia
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction On June 24, 2023, the world watched as, in a sudden turn of events, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, called for a rebellion in Russia. As his convoy of mercenaries allegedly headed to the Russian capital, videos... Continue Reading →
Geolocating an American bald eagle’s nest near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Occasionally you may come across a photo that you need to geolocate but there are no distinct landmarks or features that can guide you. You might think that there is nothing to be done. Sometimes, even in those cases, geolocation... Continue Reading →
Geolocating IDPs in South Sudan by tracking down a Facebook user’s movements
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Every so often people approach me to help them with something OSINT related, either finding data, analysing something, or geolocating images or footage of an event. These type of requests have previously led me to go down some amazing rabbit... Continue Reading →
How to geolocate remote villages in Afghanistan using reference maps
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Introduction Occasionally you will come across videos that will tell you exactly where they were filmed. You'll get excited thinking that geolocating it will be extremely fast and easy. You jump to Google Maps, write the name of the village and... Continue Reading →
How to monitor oppressive regimes on Twitter using TweetDeck
This entry was updated in April 2023 to cover the new TweetDeck layout and settings (Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Twitter and TweetDeck as monitoring tools Twitter is a huge social media platform where millions of users share content daily. Although many see it as a... Continue Reading →
Geolocation of a torture chamber in Balakliya, Ukraine
(Click here to watch and listen to the video version of this blog entry) Warning: Please be aware that, as the title indicate, this blog entry will cover the topic of torture. The focus will be on the geolocation of the building but I felt a warning was necessary. I will share a photo of... Continue Reading →
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