Clubhouse is an audio-based social app, originally built like an exclusive club, accessible on an iPhone by invite only. Today, by simply downloading the app on a mobile device and creating a free account, users can mix and mingle as they choose.
The risk of human error remains the greatest liability to national security organizations. Our OSINT techniques blog series aims to educate users on how to navigate online safely and avoid traps, like a bugged website, set by bad actors.
For many analysts, the OSINT process starts with a request for information (RFI), which results in analysts immediately collecting as much information as possible—often beginning with a photo to jump-start the intelligence collection process.
Code Name Osian Osian’s mission is to conduct online research, gathering OSINT to build a narrative about groups of interest. Prior to partnering with Ntrepid, Osian used several disparate solutions bridged together. Their analysts used dedicated standalone laptops operating outside the organization’s network to conduct mission operations. Those laptops connected to...
Mobile devices have simplified how users access web-based services. Smartphone owners have a constant connection to the internet in their pockets, and this connection is available to hundreds of millions of people that don’t have access to standard computers or home internet services. More apps, such as Instagram and TikTok, are being created on mobile first before being...
If data is online information, then metadata is how this data is described. Metadata gives an overview of an item’s content.
Google, Apple, and Firefox are each shutting down support for third-party cookies—also known as “tracking cookies”—citing an increased need for privacy online. Additionally, the U.S. government’s movements towards increased data privacy will lead to further regulations against formerly commonplace data-tracking methods.
Transforming open source data into intelligence, or OSINT, has become increasingly complex over the last decade. Although more open sources are available to operators, the dramatic increase of false information and adversarial counter attacks online have made the collection of data an even more tedious process. Known as the OSINT...
Though the open web is typically just that—wide open for internet users to access—modern websites and popular social media platforms now require users to create accounts in order to enter. With this variation in barriers to data, online users have to adjust their information-collection methods in web spaces that are...
Open source internet data is readily available for the average online user to find and utilize. For law enforcement officials, the public web can provide invaluable information to help advance their investigations. Resources on the open internet contain data that could easily enhance current findings or assist in constructing an...
