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Predictive Intelligence How-To's
This article examines the step-by-step key methods for how to properly use social media platforms to monitor location-specific events. -
What the APP?! Top Social Media APPS and the Lowdown on What Info They Collect
Starting a new health and fitness routine? Need to get to the library, but your car is in the shop? Has your 12-year-old son been grounded from receiving photos from his friends on his smartphone but appears unaffected by it? Booking a trip to Bermuda? Or, are you stepping out of your single’s lifestyle and looking for love?
All of these questions have one thing in common that a mere 10 years ago did not exist: There’s an app for that!
This Hg FactSheet gives you a foundational understanding of what these APPS collect, better preparing you to protect yourself. -
COVID Scams While billions of people are under stay-at-home and work from home orders, predators are taking advantage of people’s fears, anxiety, and losses at mind-numbing proportions. Children, who are now spending more time online for schooling, are targets for exploitation by pedophiles. Seniors are vulnerable from financial scams, and businesses are vulnerable from hacking, phishing, and cybercrimes. We are committed to serve the public by providing information on the latest scams, exploitation, and fraudulent activities as we are all in this together. -
OSINT for the Coming Year
This article examines the tools we're looking at for 2021 to further improve our investigative skills and to keep our OSINT community current on the latest resources. -
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.
