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NeedleStack co-hosts interview professional open-source researchers who discuss tips, tricks and insights into the practice of digital investigative research. Whether you’re an open-source expert or aficionado, tune in to learn how to hone your skills, improve your craft and protect yourself as you search the surface, deep and dark web. From Authentic8, creators of Silo for Research. Visit authentic8.com/needlestack to learn more!

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Navigating the Ransomware Negotiation

Best Practices For Open-Source Investigations

Exploring the Dark Web: Myths and Realities

Navigating China's Strategic Landscape

Is Mass Surveillance Helping or Hindering Intelligence?

Mastering the Art of Disappearing Online

The Rise of Citizen OSINT, and What to Do About It

What is Cyber HUMINT?

Dealing with AI Slop in OSINT Investigations

What is GEOINT in OSINT?

Ransomware’s Collateral Damage

Identifying fraud in financial services

Adding Agentic AI to Analysis

Hacker Summer Camp 2025

Intelligence tradecraft in the digital age

Using OSINT to protect celebrities and athletes

An OSINT investigator’s toolkit

AI as an insider threat

Adventures in OSINT Red Teaming

How culture can inform OSINT investigations

Ransomware gangs and OSINT

Using AI in OSINT investigations

Entering infosec as an outsider! Tips from a librarian turned cyber analyst

What is counterintelligence?

"We’re back, and we’re your new hosts"

Using OSINT to investigate organized animal crime

Investigating influence operations

Is Telegram the place for cyber investigators?

OSINT for executive protection

Word up: learning foreign languages for OSINT with Skip Schiphorst

OSINT after dark with MJ Banias

Securing high-risk communities

Demystifying dark web research for enterprise and law enforcement

Breaking in: how to use OSINT for pen testing

Lockbit and the stories behind ransomware with Jon DiMaggio

Legal and OSINT: hunting down the bullsh*t

Security research: humans in the loop with John Hammond

What’s up with OSINTUp?

OSINT training in 2024

Digital investigation techniques with Craig Silverman

OPSEC on the internet’s dark side with Sam Bent

Social media intelligence gathering with Ritu Gill

Training law enforcement on trafficking with Griffin Glynn

The myths and misconceptions of child protection

Can AI identify AI?

OSINT by day and night

How AI is disrupting OSINT for better or worse

Keeping up with AI and social media

AI-enhanced technology for frictionless borders

The ethical use of AI in open-source investigations

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