SOCMINT: Intelligence in the Social Media Era

A practical guide to theHarvester: the classic open-source OSINT tool for gathering emails, subdomains and hostnames, its passive and active data sources, and real-world uses.

Facebook's email privacy settings give a false sense of control: even when hidden from profiles and timelines, a friend's email can be harvested by importing Facebook contacts into Gmail or Yahoo.

A 2026 roundup of ten hardware pentest tools — Flipper Zero, USB Rubber Ducky, WiFi Pineapple, Proxmark3, HackRF and more — with real cases, as IoT shows up in a third of breaches.

A rundown of the top reconnaissance tools for bug bounty hunters, covering asset discovery, OSINT, automation and vulnerability research, and how each fits into a typical hunting workflow.

Introduces Kanvas, an open-source DFIR case management tool that replaces the chaotic 'Spreadsheet of Doom' with an organized desktop workspace; includes a hands-on review.

Primer on threat intelligence: definition and value, elements of a mature program, the data lifecycle and platform/AI-driven tooling, with market-size and adoption statistics.