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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 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. -
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. -
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. -
Investigating with Facebook
In this issue of Data2Know, the method of investigating within Facebook—along with some other interesting tricks—is revealed. Learn specific techniques for the investigator using Facebook as a viable source, along with common sense, cautions, and caveats. -
In Hg’s Spring FactSheet, Manager of Intelligence Dennis Maida and Analyst Thomas Fogle explore and analyze significant threat and risk concerns for the next 6-12 months; Ukraine/Russian War; U.S. midterm elections; the Great Resignation; supply chain; and COVID-19. Each one is unique, yet there is a connection between them all.
