OSINT & Social Engineering

Articles on osint & social engineering from the Ironbark Cyber team.

Executive Digital Footprint: What Attackers Can Find

Executive Digital Footprint: What Attackers Can Find

Your executives' digital footprint fuels spear phishing, fraud and physical risk. What's publicly discoverable and how an exposure assessment works.

Shadow IT Discovery: Finding the Systems Nobody Approved

Shadow IT Discovery: Finding the Systems Nobody Approved

Shadow IT, the SaaS, cloud and dev environments nobody approved, is a common source of breaches. Here's why it accumulates and how to find yours.

Vishing and Smishing: Phone and SMS Attacks Explained

Vishing and Smishing: Phone and SMS Attacks Explained

Vishing and smishing attacks target your help desk and MFA. How phone and SMS pretexts, MFA-reset abuse and MFA fatigue work, and how to harden your processes.

Leaked Credentials: How to Check Exposure and Respond

Leaked Credentials: How to Check Exposure and Respond

Leaked credentials turn up in breaches, stealer logs, pastes and public repos. Here's how to check whether yours are exposed and what to do about it.

External Attack Surface Management: A Practical Guide

External Attack Surface Management: A Practical Guide

External attack surface management explained: why organisations lose track of what they expose online, and how continuous discovery closes the gap.

How to Run a Phishing Simulation That Actually Teaches

How to Run a Phishing Simulation That Actually Teaches

Learn how to run a phishing simulation that builds real resilience, goals, targeting, ethical lure design, metrics that matter, and how to debrief well.

What Is OSINT? How Attackers Use Open-Source Intelligence

What Is OSINT? How Attackers Use Open-Source Intelligence

OSINT is intelligence gathered from public sources. Learn what is OSINT in practice, how attackers use it against your organisation, and how to defend.

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