Category: OSINT — Techniques & Methodology
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Why we built the Multilingual OSINT Glossary?
When you work in a multicultural environment, sooner or later you’ll find yourself looking up the exact meaning of a term you might need to study a text, prepare a presentation, or talk with other OSINT experts who don’t speak your language… and so on. So we decided to start work on a Multilingual OSINT…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Atrophy of Critical Thinking: Are We Training Our Successors or Digging Our Own Grave?
How many times have you been under pressure — the client or the boss needs answers by yesterday — and in front of you sits the inviting interface of Perplexity or Claude, promising to do in minutes the work that would take you hours, if not days? And here comes the deafening song of yet…
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Can you spot AI-generated content?
A few days ago I read an article in Il Post about a South Korean YouTuber arrested for defamation after sharing an AI-generated audio that wrecked the reputation of two of his fellow actors. The same day I came across two very interesting pieces on the problems of AI-generated content: a hands-on guide to analysing…
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Instagram password resets: what’s going on?
Setting the stage Across the week of 5th–11th of January many people posted on social media about unattended emails requesting password resets for their Instagram account(s). In this article we explore what actually happened, to the maximum extent of our knowledge and information available to us, and debunk some attempts by Social Media Influencers to…
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Why the Telegram “one-click IP leak” is not a vulnerability
Recent worrying rumours about a vulnerability featuring the IP address leak of a Telegram user have been circulating all over the internet. In this article we assess the severity of said “vulnerability”, how the “exploit” works and what can be done before falling into the trap. Finally, we explore a set of considerations to take…
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A day-to-day safe browsing app
Why Everyday Privacy Matters Everyday browsing might feel like a casual scroll, but it’s also a steady stream of data that silently follows you around the internet. Most popular sites embed multiple third-party trackers on a single page, so each click hands away snippets of your behaviour to dozens of advertisers. Beyond the moment-to-moment clicks,…