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Social Media Investigations: Documenting and Reporting
If you or your team is conducting social media investigations, you’ve likely spent an exhaustive amount of time learning how to search for, collect, and analyze information from social media profiles. In this article learn how to carefully and accurately document those findings for comprehensive report writing. -
Your Online Digital Footprint -- How it Makes You Vulnerable
In this issue, Hg's Aine McCormack discusses our online digital footprint, and how to keep our cyber hygiene pristine. Exploring different social engineering tactics and social media best practices are amongst other things you'll find in the latest edition of Hetherington Group's Data2Know Newsletter! -
Some of My Favorite Fraud Schemes
In this issue of Data2Know Newsletter, Hg's Cynthia dives into her favorite fraud schemes while the Hg team contributes to a new round of Industry Undercover tips. -
Online Intelligence Tips for Forensic Accounting Investigations This past year Cynthia Hetherington had the privilege to address The Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators (https://cbvinstitute.com) on the topic of online and cyber investigation applications. CBV is intensely interested in work efficiency, excellent content, and the resources that can support those endeavors. Our session was a great success and was included in the CBV Journal of Business Valuation 2020 Edition. The following is an adaptation of the session and article, in hopes of providing beneficial knowledge to information professionals, accountants, researchers, and those cyber-curious truth seekers who, like CBV, value efficiency in their productivity. -
Sock puppet accounts are mainly known to those outside the information security field as accounts used for disinformation purposes, such as swaying your opinion about a topic or a product. However, this is not the only way to use a sock puppet account. In Hg’s D2K Summer FactSheet, up-and-coming cybersecurity researcher Dakota State University Junior, Mariel Klosterman, describes how sock puppets are used by malicious actors and OSINT investigators, types of sock puppet accounts, and how to create a sock puppet for information collection. -
Great OSINT Finds - When We Love 'Em, We Must Share 'Em
Hg's team of analysts pooled the newest, favorite, and remarkable open source research sites together and contributed to a new list of go-to sources for public records, social media, geo location, and other great tools for OSINT and research alike. -
Social Media and Employees
When it comes to social media, are our work lives and our personal lives one and the same? Would we feel comfortable having our potential – or even current – employer perusing our social media posts? Hg's Manager of Investigations Rachel Kronenfeld and team highlight the legal possibilities and limitations of a social media review of an employee in this issue of Hg's Data2Know newsletter. -
On Your Trademark, Get Set, Go!
When it comes to trademark investigations, there’s one word that sticks out: use. Identifying first use, last use, and/or continuous use are the single most important factors in determining trademark rights. Hg's Senior Analyst Jake Pennington highlights the need-to-knows of Trademark use in this issue of Hg's Data2Know newsletter. -
Public Records vs. Public Information
In this issue of Data2Know, we discuss the difference between public records and public information. This article deals with the mistrust of the database services available and the need to get as close as possible to the individual subject and their paperwork. -
Connecting The Dots
In this issue of Data2Know, our main article is "Connecting the Dots," an activity that transcends all of the investigative fields. This article focuses on the methods and tools available to investigators when it comes to being thorough and "connecting the dots" in their investigations.
