OSINT Curious OSINT Resource List
OSINT Curious OSINT Resource List
Welcome to the OSINT Curious Project Resource List! Below you can find links to all the blog posts and 10 Minute Tips that we’ve
created to help share knowledge and skills with the OSINT Community. The list is regularly updated as we create new content but
you can also find us at OSINTCurio.us, on our YouTube Channel, or on Twitter @OsintCurious. To link to or share this document
click here: https://bit.ly/osintcuriousresources
1. Intro to OSINT
2. OPSEC & Sock Puppets
3. Searching
4. Social Media OSINT
5. Websites & Networks
6. Usernames
7. Linux Basics & Command Line Tools
8. Mapping & Geolocation
9. Images & Video
10. Visualisation
Five Things You Can Do To Stay OSINT Lorand Bodo looks a different ways to https://osintcurio.us/2019/01/22/five-things-
Curious develop and maintain your OSINT skills you-can-do-to-stay-osint-curious/
How To Land A Job In OSINT How do you find work in OSINT? https://osintcurio.us/2020/04/01/how-to-land-
an-osint-job/
This is a question The OSINT Curious
Project members get quite often. The answer
is yes we do! And in this blog we want to give
you some advice on where to look for those
type of jobs.
Vicarious Trauma And OSINT A guide explaining some ways to cope with https://osintcurio.us/2020/06/08/vicarious-
the more unpleasant side of online OSINT trauma-and-osint-a-practical-guide/
investigations.
Using RESET for better OSINT Nico explains to to structure your mental https://osintcurio.us/2021/02/09/using-reset-
approach to be a better OSINT investigator. for-better-osint/
Using OSINT For Your Personal Threat How to use OSINT to improve your personal https://osintcurio.us/2019/01/30/using-osint-
Model security. for-your-personal-threat-model/
Creating Research Accounts For OSINT Ritu shows how to successfully create and https://osintcurio.us/2020/08/17/creating-
Investigations maintain OSINT research accounts on a wide research-accounts-for-osint-investigations/
variety of social media platforms.
Getting Your Sock Puppet Connections On Guest post by Michael Paulie. A guide to how https://osintcurio.us/2021/05/20/getting-your-
LinkedIn to build a successful LinkedIn sock puppet. sock-puppet-connections-on-linkedin/
Don’t Hesitate, Isolate (Your Virtual Machine) How to isolate your virtual machine for https://osintcurio.us/2020/12/07/dont-
optimal opsec. hesitate-isolate-your-virtual-machine/
Searching
The New Facebook Graph Search pt 1 Performing advanced searches in Facebook https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/22/the-new-
following the removal of the graph search in facebook-graph-search-part-1/
2019.
The New Facebook Graph Search pt 2 Performing advanced searches in Facebook https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/22/the-new-
following the removal of the graph search in facebook-graph-search-part-2/
2019.
Facebook Tips How to find Facebook data once you have https://osintcurio.us/2020/04/02/facebook-
located your target’s profile. tips/
Improving Twitter Searches For Better OSINT Muting the Twitter algorithm and using basic https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/01/muting-the-
search operators to improve results. twitter-algorithm-and-using-basic-search-
operators-for-better-osint-research/
OSINT For Good How to detect and report harmful content https://osintcurio.us/2019/03/27/osint-for-
quickly good-reporting-the-bad/
https://youtu.be/71dSepA-gqc (video)
Unhardened Web Servers in Tor Have No This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah https://osintcurio.us/2019/03/05/apache-
https://youtu.be/OSmDloxBbVU
Safely Using Google's Cached Content This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
Hoffman shows how to check if Google's
cache content is pulling resources from your
target site.
https://youtu.be/UeI7wEdLPn8
Searching Breach Data for OSINT This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
Hoffman shows how to use breach data for
https://youtu.be/C9RRy1djA-Y
Watching You Drink Beer for OSINT This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
Hoffman shows how to use self-reported
beer-drinking activities from the Untappd.com
social web site for OSINT purposes. We
discover a user publicly sharing their
behaviors, download, analyze, and visualize
their activities.
https://youtu.be/aEGbPiliJpg
Using robots.txt Files for OSINT This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
Hoffman shows how to use robots.txt files on
web sites for OSINT purposes.
https://youtu.be/68wWvuM_n7A
10 Minute OSINT Tip: What Can We Learn This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
From XHR, and JSON During an OSINT Hoffman Shows How to Use XMLHTTP
Investigation? Requests (XHR) and JSON From Web Pages
for OSINT Purposes.
10 Minute OSINT Tip: How To Use APIs to In This OSINT-Curious 10 Minute Tip, Micah
Reveal Hidden Open Source Information Hoffman Shows How to Use APIs
(Application Programming Interfaces) and
JSON on a Web Page to Reveal Hidden
Information.
https://youtu.be/cA35RGMhHNg
OSINT and Web Analytics Codes and Tags This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
Hoffman shows how to use Google Analytics
and other trackers for OSINT purposes.
https://youtu.be/Qje6TyKtIKM
Certificates: OSINT and HTML Source Code This OSINT Curious 10 Minute Tip by Micah
Hoffman shows how to use website HTML
source code comments for OSINT purposes.
https://osintcurio.us/2019/01/15/tracking-all-
the-wifi-things/
Tracking All The WiFi Things Using Wigle to gather and map data from
personal WiFi hotspots.
https://osintcurio.us/2019/02/12/osint-on-
deleted-content/
OSINT on Deleted Content How to access deleted web content with a
variety of different methods.
https://osintcurio.us/2019/08/15/json-and-
common-web-encodings-demystified/
JSON and Common Web Encodings A guide to understanding how encoding
Demystified andJSONs work, and why understanding
them can help you to extract more from the
web.
https://osintcurio.us/2021/05/13/searching-
with-shodan/
Search With Shodan Guide to using Shodan to investigate internet
connected devices.
https://osintcurio.us/2021/03/03/using-
archive-org-for-osint-investigations/
Using Archive.org for OSINT Investigations Ritu Gill explains how to use the Internet
Archive for OSINT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un8OK-
Using the Internet Archive For OSINT Livestream discussion about using the JkEOA
Internet Archive
- pwd
- ls (with the flags and switches)
- cd
- alias
- Using the up and down arrows to move
through your terminal history
Visualisation
Research
Introduction to researching foreign influence A guest blog by Amine G looks at how to use https://osintcurio.us/2020/09/14/introduction-
in the US. OSINT to begin researching foreign influence to-researching-foreign-influence-in-the-us/
in US Politics.
COSINT - OSINT On Cars Matthias explains how to conduct OSINT into https://osintcurio.us/2021/02/17/cosint-osint-
vehicles. on-cars/