OSINT
Information like GPS coordinates, timestamps, and device details embedded within files is known as this.
What is metadata?
This term refers to identifying a place based on visual clues in images or videos.
What is geolocation?
What weapon was used to assassinate incoming U.S. president James Barrett in the simulation?
What is fiber-optic drones?
This U.S. intelligence agency was created in 1947 under the National Security Act.
What is the CIA?
This U.S. agency focuses on signals intelligence and cybersecurity.
What is the NSA?
This social media platform is often considered the most valuable for real-time OSINT during breaking events.
What is Twitter/X?
This widely used tool allows users to explore satellite imagery of nearly any location on Earth.
What is Google Earth?
This international actor was responsible for the assassination of the incoming U.S. president.
What is Russia?
This decrypted German cipher system was famously broken with help from Alan Turing and others.
What is Enigma?
This domestic U.S. agency is primarily responsible for counterintelligence and counterterrorism within the country.
What is the FBI?
This website allows you to check if an email or password has appeared in known data breaches.
What is Have I Been Pwned?
This type of system provides 24/7 real-time positioning, navigation, and timing services.
What is GPS?
This international nationalist group was a false flag during the simulation.
What is a Україна перш за все/Ukraine First?
This Cold War-era U.S. program conducted high-altitude reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union.
What is the U-2 program?
This UK intelligence agency is also known as the Secret Intelligence Service.
What is the MI6?
This software is commonly used to extract metadata from files in OSINT investigations.
What is ExifTool?
The process of assigning real world geographic coordinates to imagery, maps or data
What is georeferencing?
This was the name of a suspicious individual arrested at the airport who admitted to illegally obtaining a false US passport under the alias "Thomas Williams."
Who is Andrei Melnyk?
This U.S. surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden allowed the NSA to directly access user metadata from major tech companies.
What is PRISM?
This intelligence agency is widely attributed with the assassinations of several Iranian nuclear scientists, including the high-profile 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using a remote-controlled machine gun.
What is Mossad?
An open-source OSINT tool used for identifying where a specific username exists across social networks.
What is Sherlock?
This is a type of vector operation used to address questions of proximity in GIS and can be conducted on points, lines, or polygons.
What is buffering?
What was the brand name of the suspicious food truck from which the attack was conducted?
What is "Juan's Tacos and Burritos?"
A top-secret U.S. counterintelligence program that decrypted Soviet diplomatic communications, exposing extensive intelligence operations, such as spies, within the U.S. and UK.
What is the Venona project?
Created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to coordinate the 16+ agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
What is the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)?