Criminal Activity Exposed on Social Media
Law enforcement is able to obtain much of the information they need to connect suspects to their crimes by analyzing activity on various social media platforms.
05Mar
Tor Browser Vulnerability: When Tor Isn’t for Sure
The Tor browser is not impenetrable, nor is it as secure as many presume. It does provide access to hidden service sites, thereby making it a conduit to the dark web.
24Feb
Deepfakes on Social Media
How Social Media Platforms are Addressing Synthetic and Manipulated Images
20Jan
The MFA Conundrum: Social Media Verification
How can social media platforms verify that their users are who they say they are? This question has become paramount for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other platforms as instances of coordinated inauthentic behavior and CAMOSINT operations have become more prevalent.
22Oct
VPNs and Your Managed Attribution: Nsight Series
One of the reasons that people flock to VPNs, or virtual private networks, is to appear "anonymous" to their ISP. However, as we have already discussed with our managed attribution paper, online anonymity is a myth. Instead, users need to manage their digital fingerprint and behavioral footprint to operate online without giving away...
12Jun
OSINT Case Study: Code Name “Arid Hunter”
Sometimes the best way to understand how a solution might work for you is to see how it was used by someone else. One of our customers kindly gave us permission to use them in an anonymous case study.
28Feb
A Visual Approach to Extending the Enterprise Perimeter
Employees are the foundation of an organization, but as the world becomes increasingly mobile and connected, they are also a source of significant risk. Based on our 2016 report with ESG, we know that internet use is a critical part of business operations, but the web browser remains an extremely...
12Aug
How the Newswire Hack Could Have Been Avoided
The recent indictment of nine people for newswire hacking and insider trading shows once again the power of targeting, the vulnerability of browsers, and that everyone is a potential target.
21May
TheProxIsRight: Yes, Proxies are Legal
To coincide with TheProxIsRight’s recent launch of extended destination testing, which now includes Craigslist, we revisit the ever-relevant commentary on the legality of proxies.
14May
Introducing Open Proxy Insights
New utility provides network attribution detection ideal for outing proxied users.