Research & Insights

It started when my friend David texted me asking if I’d tried Cursor, a new AI-powered code editor. I hadn’t, but after he mentioned it

Anyone who’s taken a SANS SEC504 or now SEC587 class with me knows I love password cracking. But here’s the thing about password cracking –

For years, Archive.org has been one of the most valuable sites on the Internet, not only for OSINT research but also for various other tasks.

Anyone who has ever taken an OSINT course with me has heard me say, “Metadata is in play far more often than people think.” To

I’ve already mentioned the Fabric framework, which attempts to minimize the friction between AI and users in several blog posts. I still plan on doing

Anyone who has taken an OSINT class with me knows how much I love Obsidian. In addition to taking notes, I use it to organize

The internet is constantly being scanned by various services – from search engine crawlers to security research platforms. While examining a public web server’s logs

Let’s look at exactly how to configure GoWitness to blend in with normal internet traffic. The settings we’ll use aren’t complicated, but each one serves

When you’re scanning websites, you want to be invisible. Not by being completely undetectable – that’s nearly impossible – but by looking like ordinary internet

One of the most powerful features of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Claude is their ability to learn from conversation context. When you

Daniel Meisler recently created a framework called Fabric, which does something that sounds simple but turns out to be revolutionary: it removes the friction between

After writing the SEC497 Practical OSINT Course, I expected 2024 to be a bit of a downshift in a lot of ways. What wasn’t on