20201101 The OSINT Curious Webcast

Show notes at https://osintcurio.us/webcast-20201101-46/

Today’s special guest is Amine @aityaakub

Amine is a political risk analyst advising companies on operational risks and security threats particularly linked to their operations in Africa and the Middle East. He is the co-founder of Dispatch Diligence, a small Africa and Middle East-focused research and consulting firm based in Washington, DC and is currently completing a PhD at King’s College London focused on the geopolitics of critical mineral. Most recently, Amine conducted some interesting research on the intersection of social media and irregular migration in North Africa, discussing the extraordinary journey of North African irregular migrants through treacherous areas across several South American countries towards the United States. Some of Amine’s work on this topic was recently featured in the Economist and WIRED, among others.

Amine’s latest article: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-migration-videos
Amine’s latest podcast: https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/africa-toc-podcast/

People in this Episode
Micah Hoffman (@WebBreacher)
Matthias Wilson (@mw_Osint)
Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
Steven Harris (@nixintel)
John TerBush (@thegumshoo)

Links to what we discussed
The OSINT Curious Project Resource List: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources
What to do when a Facebook profile is private? NEW blog post by Technisette https://osintcurio.us/2020/10/19/what-to-do-when-a-facebook-profile-is-private/
NEW 10 Minute Tip by Nixintel on geolocation – part I: https://osintcurio.us/2020/11/01/ten-minute-tip-image-geolocation-part-1/
Bellingcat’s updated list of OSINT tools: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyhIDuK9jrPGwYr9DI2UncoqJQ/edit
Resources on mis/disinformation: https://mediamanipulation.org
FREE training session on how to verify images and videos by Jane Lytvynenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aMk48O3vpM&feature=youtu.be
Geolocating Kim Kardashian: https://vickymochama.medium.com/how-dare-you-kim-kardashians-40th-birthday-an-investigation-766dc879eb23
Guide on how to use Optical Character Recognition: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/24/screentranslator-is-an-open-source-tool-that-can-translate-text-from-images/
How to find connections between entities based on text: https://jantegze.medium.com/how-to-find-out-who-owns-my-data-d0c7984ae20f
Investigate international phone numbers, the OSINT way: https://www.secjuice.com/phone-numbers-investigation-the-open-source-way/
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-github-projects-used-for-downloading-youtube-videos/
Lorand’s new blog post on how to search social media: https://www.lorandbodo.com/blog/social-media-search-strategies
Christina Letaki & OSINTGeek’s NEW blog post on combining intelligence disciplines: https://osintgeek.de/fcihi/blog/index.html
Free 2 day SANS OSINT event: https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2021/call-for-presentations
Useful domain recon tool: https://host.io/
Similar domain recon and email address tool: https://synapsint.com/

Self Promotion
Lorand has a new blog post coming up. Follow https://lorandbodo.com/blog
John TerBush has a SANS class coming up and a NEW OSINT course coming up in January: https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/practical-osint-analysis-and-automation/ + a FREE SANS OSINT summit in February. More info here: https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2021/call-for-presentations
Free 2 day SANS OSINT event: https://www.sans.org/event/osint-summit-2021/call-for-presentations
Matthias is working on finalising the GOSINTCON.de (German open-source intelligence conference)
Amine is working on an OSINT manual to mainstream it – also in Arabic! If you want to learn more please get in touch with him https://twitter.com/aityaakub

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