The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show 282 - Major OSINT Updates
Primer: Michael Bazzell spent 18 years as a government computer crime investigator. He shares his Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) insights on his website IntelTechniques. In this episode of the OSINT Show, he shares about the various updates he has made to the Tools section on his website.
Who is Michael Bazell?
Investigated computer crimes on behalf of the government for nearly 2 decades
Assigned to FBI’s Cyber Crimes Task Force
Focused on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection
Trained thousands of individuals in the use of investigative techniques and privacy control strategies
Written many books, some of which are used by government agencies as training manuals
Host of The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show podcast
YubiKey And Proton Integration
YubiKey can now be used to secure 2FA with Proton
Redundancy Associated With 2FA
Exported his seed codes from Authy and imported them into Standard Notes app
The Standard Notes app kept crashing because of a bug
Realized the importance of having multiple 2FA apps for redundancy
Stealer Logs
When a computer gets infected, the infection sends things like stored passwords to the attacker
Some groups sell Stealer Log software that allows paid access to the logs (e.g. Netflix accounts, PayPal usernames/passwords)
Some groups are advertising active cPanel logins and WordPress credentials. Attackers can upload malicious content to your website once they have access to it
Important to activate 2FA for cPanel and WordPress
WordPress does not offer 2FA by default. You need a plugin for that
Major OSINT Updates
Updated the Tools page of his IntelTechniques website:
New Tor.link search engine
Twitter tool that uses TweetBeaver search service:
The TB User ID gives you the account’s Twitter ID number. People can change their Twitter handles but not their ID number
TB User Data gives you the basic metadata about an account (e.g. followers, following, etc.)
Names — Added ID Crawl option to look for Instagram, Twitter, and other public records associated with that name
Maps — AcreValue option to outline your property, boundaries of your property, etc. Use Inspect Element to view the names associated with the properties
Images — FaceCheck option to add in the URL of a person’s photo and it will find other images of that person’s face. Don’t think this service will be free for long
Live Audio Streams:
Select the news services that you want to listen to
Remote-controlled physical radios connected to external antennas all over the world (e.g. person might be in Tokyo listening to a radio station in LA)
Have a waterfall display of frequencies/stations on the entire spectrum for people to connect to
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