Aug 15, 2009

Maltego

Played with Maltego. It's a powerful tool to dig out information from the net. Especially interesting is it's ability to find connections between objects. Below are couple of example graphs created, when I searched tweets with phrases "H1N1", "swineflu" and "sikainfluenssa" (swineflu in finnish). Tool shows for example which word is mentioned most, who's sending most tweets, what urls are mentioned and how these are connected. It would be possible to go further and create a graph showing who's following who in Twitter.

Nice example, how all your personal information on the net can be dug out, correlated and analyzed. Because of my security background, I can't help thinking how useful this tool would be for planning targeted attacks.

It's not enough to Google yourself anymore, you have to Maltego yourself also:-)