Ghost OSINT Investigations

What you’re about to read is an expansion of an earlier article I wrote, ‘The powerful cyberweapons that can fit in your pocket.’ In this...

Hackers and law enforcement have a colorful history. Pick any decade, and it’s chock-full of arrests and heavy-handed prosecutions, which...

When the news broke on Wednesday, December 6th, that Facebook (Meta) and its offshoot Instagram were finally being served with a lawsuit...

Trolling is a form of cyberbullying. It involves posting malicious or harassing comments on social media platforms to hurt or humiliate...

Her name is Tatum Edwards. She was 18 years old when she vanished without a trace in 2021. She didn’t pack her bags or take any family...

To say that we are living in a volatile time would be a brazen understatement. Since the onset of #OpRussia and successive operations,...

The first hacking incident occurred in 1878, long before computers were invented. It happened two years after the launch of Alexander...

“OPSEC is religion,” is a saying I repeat often. It suggests that guarding privacy and anonymity online should be considered a...

The fight to protect innocence is an insurmountable power struggle between cyber vigilantes and online predators against children. While...

by Mitnick Security Consulting the untimely death of hacker legend and social engineer mastermind Kevin David Mitnick. Mitnick’s...

You typically trust the people you work with. After all, you interact with them daily and develop camaraderie. Some you feel comfortable...

You walk into a coffee shop, order something from the menu, and sit down with your laptop. You connect to the public Wi-Fi and begin...

Many years ago, a group of hackers sat at their computers late at night. It was their routine every night. They listened to music, ate...

Sep 22, 2021 Just like any other day you come into work and take your place at the cube farm and power up your workstation PC. You enter...

Hollywood and headlines are largely responsible for what we know about hackers. Also, factor in the unfortunate experiences of system...

Aug 26, 2021 You see him every evening right as you’re about to clock out and get ready for the drive home after a full day’s work. He...

Dec 9, 202 I have always prided myself as being impervious to scams. After all, scams used to be part of my hacker toolkit. Hackers can...

Back in the spring of 2007, I got my hands dirty with phishing attacks. Every year since its inception in the mid-1990s, phishing has...

She sits at her computer, sipping from a crystal glass of wine while listening to music. The mixture drives her warfare like the...

The thing about malware is that anti-malware signatures assign a unique hash that is used to identify it. If it can be detected before...