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@secou.bsky.social

🔴 Consultant, formateur 🔴 Je vous aide à améliorer vos processus de veille et d'investigation via Internet (OSINT) | Ex @secou sur Twitter

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Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

Le même sujet traité dans Science

"Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds"
www.science.org/content/arti...

L'étude en question
"The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

05.08.2025 08:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Sky News expands data and forensics journalism team Sky News is hiring journalists to expand its data and forensics team as part of a plan to make premium journalism that people might pay for.

[ #DATAJOURNALISM ] Sky News expands data and forensics journalism team:
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/s...
news.sky.com/topic/data-a...

31.07.2025 06:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Je note une anonymisation de noms de sociétés ne semblant pas être des noms de personnes physiques dans les arrêts sur Légifrance.
Exemple : Cour de cassation, Chambre criminelle, 11 Juin 2025 – n° 23-83.474
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23.07.2025 10:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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La cartographie interactive #GarganText des études sur #acétamipride, #insecticide réautorisé dans le cadre de la #LoiDuplomb vient de sortir ! Explorez ce qu'en dit la science➡️ maps.gargantext.org/maps/acetami...

Exemple ce que donne la recherche du mot 'human', qui allume un thème entier ⬇️

19.07.2025 01:34 — 👍 69    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 3
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When an Executive Needs a Digital Exposure Audit 💬 You don’t have to work in cybersecurity to be targeted.  But your digital footprint is already part of someone’s OSINT strategy.

When an Executive Needs a Digital Exposure Audit
medium.com/@ingvarpavlo...

18.07.2025 07:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Executive Phishing & Impersonation: What OSINT Can Prevent In 2025, phishing is no longer about mass spam. It’s personal. Forget about emails from “your bank” - attackers now go after you because…

Executive Phishing & Impersonation: What OSINT Can Prevent
medium.com/@ingvarpavlo...

18.07.2025 07:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Digital Footprints of Executives: What Attackers Really Use CEOs, founders, investors - you’re targets. In today’s world, it takes just a few clicks to build a dossier, launch a targeted attack, and…

[ #CYBERSECURITY ] Digital Footprints of Executives: What Attackers Really Use (by @ingvarpavlovich.bsky.social [UA])
medium.com/@ingvarpavlo...

18.07.2025 07:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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MINI TIPS
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Saviez-vous que Google tient un fichier répertoriant ~11M de codes Google Pub (pub-****) ?
Vous savez les codes que vous pouvez trouver dans les ads.txt à la racine d'un site.
Ils sont censés identifier les vendeurs d'annonces.

16.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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[ #OSINT #OPSEC ] Big list of frontend alternatives

farside.link

Thanks to this episode of Needlestack

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUa...

11.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2025 | NewspaperArchive Search through 16,491 historic newspaper archives to do genealogy and family history. Find obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, and other local and national news for over 9.3 billion people!

Tip: Recently I was investigating an old cold case and an old newspaper gave me the breakthrough that helped solved the case. Use newspaperarchive.com (paid) or news.google.com/newspapers (free) for local newspaper #OSINT.
Perfect for verifying people, crimes, or old business data.

06.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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GitHub - paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Bangladesh: A collection of OSINT sources and public data tools specific to Bangladesh, following the paulpogoda/OSINT-for-countries-V2.0 template. A collection of OSINT sources and public data tools specific to Bangladesh, following the paulpogoda/OSINT-for-countries-V2.0 template. - paulpogoda/OSINT-Tools-Bangladesh

OSINT for Countries Update | Bangladesh github.com/paulpogoda/O...

01.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fact-checkers always want the facts. That’s why Snopes is unionizing for transparency from management. @snopes.com

30.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 139    🔁 45    💬 6    📌 14
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[ #IA #CONFIDENTIALITÉ ] PANAME : un partenariat pour l’audit de la confidentialité des modèles d’IA :
www.peren.gouv.fr/actualites/2...

#ai #privacy

01.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shadows in the Air: Detecting Technical Surveillance with Bluetooth Trackers Admit it, have you ever had that feeling — like you’re being watched? Not by a dark guy in a trench coat from a noir movie, but by…

[ #COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ] Shadows in the Air: Detecting Technical Surveillance with Bluetooth Trackers:
medium.com/@ibederov_en...

#OPSEC #counterespionage

01.07.2025 10:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Plongée dans l'ombre d'une organisation iranienne de cybersécurité - Projet FOX Au cours de la dernière décennie, l’Iran s’est imposé comme un acteur majeur du cyberespace, en développant un appareil offensif structuré, coordonné et soutenu par un écosystème cyber hybride, mêlant...

[ #OSINT ] Plongée dans l’ombre d’une organisation iranienne de cybersécurité (par @projetfox.com) :
projetfox.com/2025/07/plon...

#cybersec

01.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Operation Overload: An AI fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort - CheckFirst The Russian propaganda operation targeted at media organisations and fact-checkers is still going strong. Operation Overload, which we first documented in June 2024 is now leveraging AI generated cont...

[ #DISINFORMATION ] Operation Overload: An AI fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort (by @checkfirst.network):
checkfirst.network/operation-ov...

26.06.2025 10:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HEAT: Harmful Environmental Agendas & Tactics - EU DisinfoLab This report presents the final findings of the HEAT project, which investigated climate-related misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) across Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

🚨 #HEAT is rising! 🌡️🌍

Today we launch HEAT, a cross-border investigation into how #ClimateDisinfo is coordinated, embedded & amplified.

Disinfo isn’t fringe. It’s systemic.

💡 Read the report🔗 www.disinfo.eu/heat-harmful...

💙 @logicallyfacts.com
#DSA #CIB #FIMI #disinformation #disinfo #EMIFund

23.06.2025 11:33 — 👍 26    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 4
Nouveauté - la prévisualisation cartographique

Nouveauté - la prévisualisation cartographique

🗺️ La prévisualisation des fichiers PMTiles et GeoJSON est désormais disponible sur la plateforme ! #geo

Et bientôt d’autres formats (flux WMS et WFS, CSV contenant des données géographiques) grâce aux communs numériques de cartes.gouv.fr (IGN).

En savoir plus : www.data.gouv.fr/fr/posts/pre...

23.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Pendant plusieurs semaines, j'ai travaillé sur l'une des plus grosses fuites de données de l'histoire du complexe russe de manipulation de l'information.J'en ai tiré cet article, qui "teste" l'articulation qu'on peut construire entre leaks et démarche géopolitique legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/06/1...

17.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 123    🔁 63    💬 4    📌 1
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Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.

NEW: Messaging app Telegram has a reputation for security — but Important Stories found that its technical infrastructure is run by a man whose companies closely collaborate with Russian intelligence services.

Meet the little-known engineer at the center: www.occrp.org/en/investiga... #Telegram

10.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 67    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 4
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AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok are falsely claiming that two photos shared by Gavin Newsom, which he claimed to show National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in LA, were from 2021 in Afghanistan.

In fact, both photos were published in an exclusive report by the San Francisco Chronicle today.

10.06.2025 01:28 — 👍 1292    🔁 542    💬 40    📌 49
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OSINT of Qatar This post is part of UNISHKA Research Service’s ongoing OSINT series.

[ #OSINT #QATAR ] OSINT resources for investigating Qatar (by @unishka.bsky.social):
unishka.substack.com/p/osint-of-q...

07.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The latest satellite images show 3 major developments: a large Russian troop buildup in Bryansk Oblast, damage from recent drone strikes in Kyiv, and unusual military activities at Taiwan’s Wangan Airport.

All three have one thing in common - they were generated by AI. 🧵Thread:

The latest satellite images show 3 major developments: a large Russian troop buildup in Bryansk Oblast, damage from recent drone strikes in Kyiv, and unusual military activities at Taiwan’s Wangan Airport. All three have one thing in common - they were generated by AI. 🧵Thread:

This is a good thread on AI-generated, fake satellite (optical and SAR) images. x.com/Tatarigami_U...

06.06.2025 22:27 — 👍 68    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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gijn.org GIJN Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying

The first step to investigating lobbying is to comprehend it.

GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Foreign Lobbying, shares free tools for journalists interested in covering lobbying worldwide. the first step to investigating lobbying is to comprehend it. https://twp.ai/9PSE8V

07.06.2025 02:54 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
On August 13, 2025 My book on QAnon "From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" will be published with Routledge's Far-Right and Fascism series. It will be available for Pre-Order in July.

www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...

14.02.2025 17:15 — 👍 234    🔁 62    💬 10    📌 9
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Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.

[ #GEOLOCATION ] Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation?

"[...] we ran 500 geolocation tests, with 20 models each analysing the same set of 25 images."

www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

07.06.2025 03:25 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

the ideology behind current decisions

23.05.2025 10:30 — 👍 67    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 0
Illustraion de flowsise

Illustraion de flowsise

Flowise : un outil Open Source pour concevoir des agents d'IA visuellement

👉 Le projet : github.com/FlowiseAI...
👉 En savoir plus : https://flowiseai.com/

23.05.2025 10:51 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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[ #READLATER ] Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know (by @mozilla.org) :
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...

23.05.2025 10:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oui 😉

22.05.2025 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@secou is following 20 prominent accounts