Recent Blog
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OSINT LIAR’s Package Management
OSINT LIAR’s 1.8 release adds a package management system to the software as a service. This provides a curated list of useful OSINT resources. These packages provide urls, descriptions, and automations that simplify the data collection process and automate the information extraction process. The packages are OSINT LIAR plugins.. Plugins can aid in your research…
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Triaging OSINT Pivots with OSINT LIAR
While conducting research it is really easy to accumulate too many pivots to explore. For example, when we extract usernames from a conversation in a forum that can generate 10 to 30 new leads to follow up on. Over the span of several different conversionsations on forums this can lead to hundreds of pivots to…
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OSINT LIAR 1.5.0 Release
We are proud to announce the release of OSINT LIAR 1.5.0. This release is packed with features: OSINT LIAR is free for personal or for use by non-profits Usage no longer requires an API key, when using it for personal use Audit logging was added to track changes when captures are shared between people Improved…
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Who Am I: Release 0.7.0
Who Am I, a chrome extension for username enumeration has a new release. Who Am I now lets you right click on highlighted text and utilizes the “Whats My Name” and “Sherlock” sites list for searching across hundreds of social media sites. Who Am I’s, search functionality has been improved so you can quickly reduce…
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Application Key Token
Your Data is Firewalled OSINT LIAR uses a RESTful API approach for saving and retrieving your data. To protect your data we use tokens. OSINT LIAR “Application Key Tokens” are a string of alphanumeric and other characters. They are not encoded, at this time. You MUST provide this token to the application to you want…
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Browser Extensions And User Snippets
Chrome Extensions And User Snippets Most Open Source Intelligence collection techniques rely on your web browser for accessing and acquiring data. Chrome Extensions play a major role in helping extract and archive data from web pages. Extensions provide you with the “easy” button, when it comes collecting the data. User Snippets are multiline Javascript functions…
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The Four Ways To Capture A Web Page
The Four Ways To Capture A Web Page For last several years, I have learned a lot about Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and wanted to share with others my knowledge about this field. My background is in Computer Science and have 20 years of experience at this point. In a series of Blog posts, I…
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with LIA
OCR is the process of converting either printed documents or images with words into digital text that can be used for analysis. This is helpful for transforming PDFs that contain images with words into something that can be indexed and made searchable within LIA. Alternatively, OCR is also known as text recognition. This functionality can…
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Boolean Search with LIA
The Local Internet Archive or LIA now supports Boolean search. Boolean search can help you narrow or widen your search criteria depending on your needs. LIA supports the following Boolean search options: NOT AND OR These provide the ability to focus a search, particularly when your topic contains multiple search terms. For example, let imagine…