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Username Osint #3

 Today I'm gonna share a very great and useful website to easily hunt down any user with just their username, yes you've read it right you just need to have your targets username only, and for this you don't have to install any tool. So let's start our today's blog. In one of my blog i've already told you the importance of username in our life and how you can easily learn about a person by their usernames, if you haven't read that blog yet than i would recommend you to go and read that blog first to understand the importance of username. So in this blog i'm sharing another best website to investigate your target with just their username and that website is NAMINT is one of the best source and also very popular among osint researchers because of it's simple look and the information it returns is really amazing. In the image above is the interface of the namint website with some blank boxes, you have to enter some information about your target such as

Username Osint #2

Today we will gonna use a tool for username osint but before reading this blog i recommend you guys to go back and read my previous blog because in that blog i've explained the importance of username and why it is crucial for every osint investigator to investigate a username, so do not forget to read my previous blog. So in this blog we are gonna use a tool named sherlock which is an open source tool developed by sdushantha. Sherlock will search usernames in 300 different social media platforms for better results. It is also one of the widely used tool in osint and hacking industries. In order to use sherlock we need to install it first on our system, i'm gonna use my windows subsystem linux for this blog and i assume that you guys are using wsl too. Commands git clone https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock.git After cloning the tool go inside the sherlock directory and install the required packages by running the  python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt command

Username OSINT #1

Hey readers! Welcome back to another awesome blog, in today's blog we are gonna learn and explore about usernames and how did a person can easily be track down by their usernames which they use on their social media platforms, now you might be thinking that it's just a username and it can't give much info about the target, well you are wrong because a username can say a lot about you and your personality. A username can not only reveal your real identity but it will also lead a hacker or investigator at your door step, because whatever username we choose for online world it's somewhere related or conntected to our fantasies, dreams, or actions in real world, infact username osint is one techniques used by stalkers to stalk you online, okay so now you guys have understand the importance of the username osint let's move on to the practical part of the blog and for this blog we are gonna use a website called namechk . Namechk is one of the best platform to start inv