Hey #OSINT, did you enjoy Christmas? 🤶 Here's a list of signal intelligence agencies around the world (which send Santa the naughty list) 🕵️
1. UK 🇬🇧 - Government Communications Headquarters
Formed: 1 November 1919; 103 years ago (as Government Code and Cypher School)
commonly known as GCHQ
Headquarters: The Doughnut, Hubble Road, Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
official site: gchq.gov.uk
2. Netherlands 🇳🇱 - Inlichtingen-en Algemene Veiligheidsdienst
Formed: 30 May 2002; 20 years ago
The AIVD focuses mostly on domestic non-military threats to Dutch national security
Headquarters: Europaweg 4, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
official site: english.aivd.nl
3. France 🇫🇷 - Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure
Formed: 2 April 1982; 40 years ago
The DGSE is directly supervised by the Ministry of Armed Forces.
Headquarters: 141 Boulevard Mortier, Paris XX, France
official site: dgse.gouv.fr/fr
4. Spain 🇪🇸 - Servicio de Información de la Guardia Civil
Formed: February 24, 1941; 81 years ago
Headquarters: Madrid, Spain
official site: guardiacivil.es
5. South Africa 🇿🇦 - Electronic Communications Security
Formed: 2003
COMSEC (formally Electronic Communications Security (Pty) Ltd) is a company owned by the Government through its National Intelligence Agency.
Headquarters: Cape Town
6. Egypt 🇪🇬 - Gihaz al-Mukhabarat al-Amma
Formed: 1954; 68 years ago
The Egyptian Intelligence service is considered to be the 5th most active intelligence service globally.
Headquarters: Cairo
7. Norway 🇳🇴 - Etterretningstjenesten
Formed: 1915
Headquarters: Lutvann, Oslo
official site: forsvaret.no/en/organisatio…
8. Germany 🇩🇪 - Bundesnachrichtendienst
Formed: 1 April 1956; 66 years ago
Headquarters: Berlin
official site: bnd.bund.de
9. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - Information Network Security Agency
Formed: 2006
Headquarters: Addis Ababa
official site: insa.gov.et
10. Sweden 🇸🇪 - National Defence Radio Establishment
Formed: 1 July 1942
Headquarters: Rörbyvägen, Lovön, Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County
official site: fra.se
11. Italy 🇮🇹 - Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza
Formed: 3 August 2007
Headquarters: Piazza Dante 25, Rome
official site: sicurezzanazionale.gov.it
12. Poland 🇵🇱 - Agencja Wywiadu
Formed: 29 June 2002
Headquarters: Miłobędzka St., Warsaw
official site: aw.gov.pl
13. Russia 🇷🇺 - Special Communications Service of Russia (Служба специальной связи и информации)
Formed: March 11, 2003; 19 years ago
Headquarters: Moscow
official site: fso.gov.ru/struct/sssi/
14. Israel 🇮🇱 - Unit 8200
Formed: 1952
According to the Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, "Unit 8200 is probably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stands on a par with the NSA in everything except scale."
15. United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 - Signals Intelligence Agency
Formed: 2012
formerly known as National Electronic Security Authority (NESA)
In December 2019, New York Times reported that SIA used ToTok, a messaging app widely used by Emirati public, to record users data.
16. Singapore 🇸🇬 - Security and Intelligence Division
Formed: 17 February 1966; 56 years ago
official site: sid.gov.sg
17. China 🇨🇳 - Ministry of State Security
Formed: 1 July 1983; 39 years ago
Headquarters: Xiyuan, Haidian, Beijing
official site: 12339.gov.cn
18. Indonesia 🇮🇩 - Badan Siber dan Sandi Negara
Formed: 19 Mei 2017
Headquarters: Jalan Raya Muchtar 70 Bojongsari, Depok, Jawa Barat – 16516
official site: bssn.go.id
19. Philippine 🇵🇭 - National Intelligence Coordinating Agency
Formed: July 10, 1949; 73 years ago
Headquarters: Quezon City
official site: nica.gov.ph
20. Brunei 🇧🇳 - Internal Security Department
Formed: August 1, 1993
Headquarters: Jalan Utama Mentiri, Kampong Sungai Tilong
official site: isd.gov.bn/SitePages/Intr…
21. South Korea 🇰🇷 - Intelligence and Security Bureau
Formed: 13 June 1961; 61 years ago
Headquarters: Naegok-dong, Seocho District, Seoul
official site: nis.go.kr
22. Japan 🇯🇵 - Koanchosa-cho
Formed: July 21, 1952; 70 years ago
Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo
official site: moj.go.jp/psia/index.html
23. Australia 🇦🇺 - Australian Signals Directorate
Formed: 12 November 1947; 75 years ago
Headquarters: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
official site: asd.gov.au
24. USA 🇺🇸 - National Security Agency
Formed: November 4, 1952; 70 years ago
Headquarters: Fort Meade, Maryland
official site: nsa.gov
25. New Zealand 🇳🇿 - Government Communication Security Bureau
Formed: 1977; 45 years ago
Headquarters: Pipitea House, 1–15 Pipitea Street, Wellington
official site: gcsb.govt.nz
Today the Internet Archive has a collection of nearly 625 billion web pages, 38 million books and texts, 14 million audio recordings, 7 million videos (including 2 million Television News programs), 4 million images, 790,000 software programs and more.
With all due respect, we don’t need all the data that’s been recorded by the Internet Archive. Usually people save pages on the Wayback Machine that are relevant to them.
So let's use 'Archive Box' @ArchiveBoxApp to make our own archive.
Finding Luther — An OSINT Geo location Challenge. 🧵
Step 1: This time I wanted to approach this zero knowledge target differently. So the first thing that I did was to reverse search the image. I got few results on Google & Yandex. Even they pointed out the season and episode number of Luther. #OSINT#geolocation#verification
Step 2: Here’s a tip (if you didn’t know already), IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandom Wiki pages could be super useful when you are investigating movies or TV shows. #OSINT#geolocation#verification 🌐
Hey #OSINT 🕵️♀️ Just saw some post within the community talking about the difference between 'Open Source Information' and 'Open Source Intelligence' 🤠 which I believe could be flawed and subjective. Here's why? 👇
First question - All of a sudden, what is this #OSINF
Open Source Intelligence is utilizing publicly available data for various purposes. And what should be considered as 'Intelligence' is dependent on the organization or interests. If one's a journalist or LE or spy, everyone's definition/priorities of 'Intelligence' differs.#OSINT
Usage of JARGON
Gap analysis, Pattern analysis, Strategic analysis (& N number of analysis)
Well, all these are NOT specifically related to OSINT, because there is no standard definition of OSINT. Perhaps, some international orgs have defined it based on their interests.#OSINT
Hey #OSINT, what is your plan for the weekend? or do you want something interesting to watch? We have a list of documentaries on the most mysterious cases in history which remain unsolved until now. 🕵️♀️
1. The Zodiac Killer
is pseudonym of unidentified serial killer who operated in North California in late 60s. It has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case. It became a fixture of pop culture and inspired amateur detectives to solve it.
2. Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident was an event in which 9 Soviet trekkers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, in uncertain circumstances.
Terrorist groups are increasingly adapting to technology to recruit, to disseminate illegal content and to promote violence. #OSINT can help identifying these networks and understanding the way they operate online. Here's a list of tools for researching terrorism: