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Hey everyone! This week's wrap up is going to be a little light. I didn't manage to get much free study done (sick toddlers == tired mama), but I did get through the massive list of OSINT resources passed along by Heath Adams from the PNPT Live homework from last week. Here's a few of the tools I found to be the most interesting:
WiGLE: if you're new to wireless network mapping (or even just appreciate the massive differences in wireless network density between various regions of the world), this is a fun website to play around with. Users can search by address, and filter by networks depending on how they are discoverable.
SocialBearing: this is a free Twitter analytics tool that allows you to search for users by handle. You can then see data like their friends lists, tweets and replies between multiple users, and you also have the ability to export all that data (important for report writing). Lots of good charts and graphs to use.
There are also some handy CLI social media scraper tools like sherlock, twint, or instaloader. The full commands for each tool are as follows:
sherlock [username] //scrapes the most commonly used websites for the provided username
twint -u [username] //this can be used in conjunction with other options (like --followers or --following) to further filter the results. This Python-based tool can be found here https://github.com/twintproject/twint
instaloader profile [profile...] //allows you to download photos, videos, captions, comments, and more from given Instagram profiles to use in reports or OSINT investigations
Honorable mention: there's a game called Geoguesser which, if you haven't tried it before, I highly recommend it. You can play for free for a limited time, or you can pay like $3/month for the premium subscription. But it's essentially Google maps, and you're placed in a random location somewhere in the world. The goal is to use what you see around you (you're able to move around in multiple directions) to guess where you are. The closer your guess, the more points you score. It's a lot of fun, and my family and I all really enjoy playing it.
I think that's all for this week! Goals for this coming week are to try to get the requirements done for the OSINT Dojo Student rank (participate in an OSINT CTF, do a couple OSINT quizzes, write a blog post, and record a video), and finish the Juice Shop room from TryHackMe.
Until next time!