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

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/