Blog

Here you can find all of the articles and reports I have published

Mind Games – How Hacking Perceptions is Becoming a Weapon of Choice for Online Warfare – Sep 28, 2023

Targeted Healers: Open Source Analysis of Attacks on Hospitals and Medical Staff in Sudan – Jan 28, 2022

Analysis of the “RealSikh” Influence Operation Targeting Sikh Issues & Pushing Indian Nationalism [Influence Operations Case Study] – Nov 23 2021

Pro-China Influence Operations Targeting the West on Social Media [Influence Operations Case Study] – Aug 5 2021

Geolocating a Plane Shot Down in Ethiopia – Case Studies on Mountain Profiling with PeakVisor – Jul 2 2021

Inside a BJP Influence Operation Targeting West Bengali Politics [Influence Operations Case Study] – Feb 19, 2021

Twitter Analysis: Identifying a Pro-BJP Copypasta Influence Operation in India [Influence Operations Case Study] – Jan 11, 2021

Geospatial awareness: how to add geodata to Google Earth Pro & four datasets you should try [GEOINT How To] – Dec 4, 2020

West Papua: New Online Influence Operation Attempts to Sway Independence Debate [Information Operations Case Study] – Nov 12, 2020

Dear X, your staff passwords, numbers & confidential data is on Google – a report on searching and ethics [Case Study: Google Dorking] – Oct 2, 2020

How I Scrape and Analyse Twitter Networks [Network Graph and Scrape How To] – May 27, 2020

Uncovering A Pro-Chinese Govt Information Operation On Twitter and Facebook: The #MilesGuo Bot Network [Information Operations Case Study] – May 5, 2020

Finding McAfee: Geolocation & Imagery Analysis [Geolocation Case Study] – Mar 15, 2020

How Italy Sold Armoured Vehicles To Russia + Their Deployment With Syrian Army Militias [Arms Tracing Case Study] – December 20, 2019

Dangerous Goods: Tracing European Arms Used in Oppression and Human Rights Violations – November 29, 2019

Investigating Information Operations in West Papua: A Digital Forensic Case Study of Cross-Platform Network Analysis [Information Operations Case Study] – October 11, 2019

Pro-Indonesian Government Propaganda Bots Use Facebook Ads To Target Europe [Influence Operations Case Study] – September 12, 2019

Identifying A Pro-Indonesian Propaganda Bot Network [Bot Network Case Study] – September 3, 2019

How To Use Google Earth’s Three Dimensional View: Feat. Syria, Yemen, Sudan [IMINT and Geolocation Case Study] – March 5, 2019

Geolocation of Infrastructure Destruction in Cameroon: A Case Study of Kumbo and Kumfutu [Geolocation Case Study] – November 21, 2018

Using Time-Lapse Satellite Imagery To Detect Infrastructure Changes: Case-Studies via Myanmar, Nigeria and the South China Sea [IMINT Case Study] – November 19, 2018

Tracing Jihadists and Kidnappers on the Blockchain [OSINT Case Study] – June 18, 2018

Tracing a Dark Web Service on the Blockchain [OSINT Case Study] – September 6, 2018

How to Identify Burnt Villages by Satellite Imagery  — Case-Studies from California, Nigeria and Myanmar [GEOINT Case Study] – September 4, 2018

How to search, store and plot indexed Google Maps links — a case study using examples of drones in Syria – October 26, 2018

When in doubt, use image reverse search — the case of the crypto sockpuppet and the innocent TV presenter [OSINT Case Study] – October 6, 2018

Boko Haram’s systematic destruction and displacement of Nigerian communities — a Google Earth case study – August 8, 2018

Strava’s segment explorer shows who ran what, where, and when – An OSINT investigation into operational security [INFOSEC Case Study] – June 23, 2018