I have many discussions with clients about this topic – over-sharing. Whether it is in their social media, on their website or even on the notice board in the reception area. These snippets of information that are readily available without “hacking” are called OSINT – open source intelligence. The Internet …
Because It’s Friday – “The cloud of expanding plasma that used to be the ball”
Let’s start today with the fact that Google says there are far too many characters in my title. The Google appointed SEO gods are only happy if your title has no more 60 characters because they care about * their users. Here comes another quote from today’s video “Google is …
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OSINT – Do you know what it is?
OSINT = Open Source Intelligence. That is that information that a threat actor can gather about you and your organisation, from open source resources – there is no need to hack you if you leave the information lying around. When I was studying, the weeks we covered OSINT, were some …
Crypto for the weekend
Bruce Schneier’s blog put me onto this article, which explains in some depth how with careful detective work, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) made anonymous cryptocurrency transactions not so anonymous. It is a long, but very interesting article but please note the content warning from the Wired website, and do not …
