Episode 44: Guest Julia Bayer, Geolocating without Street View and Google Maps, SOCMINT on foreign social media, FOCA for OSINT, DNS research

The OSINT Curious Project

This week’s guest is Julia Bayer (@bayer_julia)

Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW´s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom.

People in this Episode

• Nico Dekens (@DutchOSINTGuy)
• Matthias Wilson (@mwOsint)
• Lorand Bodo (@LorandBodo)
• Nixintel (@nixintel)
• Sector035 (@sector035)
• Rae Baker (@wondersmith_rae)

Links to what we discussed

• OSINTCurious blog post by Technisette: https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/28/when-there-is-no-google-earth-or-street-view-what-can-you-do/
• Blog by Matthias Wilson: SOCMINT on foreign platforms: https://keyfindings.blog/2020/10/04/social-media-around-the-world/
• Updated browser extension by OSINTSupport: https://osint.support/chrome-extensions/2019/09/29/osint-socmint-tooling.html
• Google dorks to access confidential information: https://benjaminstrick.com/dear-x-your-staff-passwords-numbers-and-confidential-data-is-on-google/
• Blog post by Nixintel: https://nixintel.info/osint/do-dns-records-prove-that-jim-watkins-is-q/
• Blog post by Rae Baker: https://medium.com/@raebaker/using-foca-for-osint-document-metadata-analysis-6745c8d709fa
• Search for emojis: https://www.fastemoji.com/
• Update by Telegram: https://twitter.com/LorandBodo/status/1311591571498971136
• 2020 OSINT tools & resources handbook by @i_intelligence: https://i-intelligence.eu/resources/osint-toolkit
• FREE online investigative training course for journalists: https://twitter.com/KnightCenterUT/status/1312508586216497153
• Create your own bookmarks database: https://www.aware-online.com/en/create-your-own-osint-database-with-bookmarks/
• Thread on how to investigate websites: https://twitter.com/aware_online/status/1308312883248467975
• How discover relationships between websites using Maltego: https://www.maltego.com/blog/tracing-internet-relationships-with-maltego/

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