Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

Using Echosec

One of my favorite tools for mining the data revealed on these social networking services is known as Echosec. This service offers more than just a service used to locate information on social networking sites; it aggregates the information from multiple sites and then locates where the post was made using geographic data. Yes, you read that right; it can show you on a map where a post to a network was made and even allow you to adjust the timeframe.

The following figure shows the Echosec interface:

Echosec works in part because social networks either use location data embedded in the post or use other features to place it on ...