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Finding Fraudsters on the Open Web
They’re shifty fellows, alright! And that’s saying something coming from a lizard with a mood ring for an epidermis. The second you think you got these phishy fraudsters pegged, poof! Off to some shady corner of the web. Keeping up with them? Let’s just say it’s trickier than blending in at a kaleidoscope convention (ask…
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Scamming the Scammer
🚨 SPOILER ALERT: This article shares IoF (Indicators of Fraud). Yeah, I just made that up. They say knowledge is power. So when I got a random text from (470) 361-8476 asking, “Wendy [Not my real name], are you going to play golf this weekend?” they had no idea who they were dealing with. If…
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Hunting the Predator
In today’s article, we want to shine a spotlight on an extraordinary #osintforgood non-profit founded by Jeff Tiegs, known as Skull Games. Skull Games won OSMOSISCON Non-Profit of the Year for 2023. Their mission is to harness the power of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in the battle against sex trafficking in the United States. Their latest…
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Made For Maltego
When I first got to know Maltego, it was like love at first sight for this chameleon! It felt as if Transforms were whispering my name. We were a match made in data heaven. But just like any relationship, that initial infatuation needs to grow into something more substantial if it’s going to last. So,…
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Mal de Debarquement Syndrome
Mal de Debarquement syndrome; French term for “sickness of disembarkment” and describes the feeling a sailor might have after receiving their sea legs and returning to shore. You know your back on stable ground, but the world still feels like it’s swaying from side-to-side. It’s a good metaphor for the experience of emerging from crawling…
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Transforming with Holehe-Maltego
Hello Maltego! A software that’s all about Transforms? Sounds like my kind of software. It’s free?! Could this get any… oh wait… Ok, so join the club of hundreds if not thousands of software options with a free download and premium subscriptions. From video games to corporate level software solutions, it’s the same old bait…
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Anonymizing Your Sock Puppets
You’re not real without your phone! At least, that seems to be the conclusion much of internet has reached. When so much of the online ecosystem revolves around tracking and selling your personal data, there are very real financial concerns when it comes to validating the identity of users for major social platforms. Unfortunately, blending…
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Taking on the Drug Lords
The Cartel Connection, which provided a photo to identify Diego’s last known location…
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