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Lastly, I would like to show you how you can uncover or find metadata information in images.

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Metadata is information that are stored within an image, video, or a document that gives extra information

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about this file.

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You might be able to find the creation and modification date, author usernames, GPS coordinates,

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or the device that took that image.

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Now, we have already covered how we can find metadata in an image in the search engine Osint section.

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But this time we are going to take a different approach.

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Please keep in mind that most social media platforms strip metadata when uploading users pictures and

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videos.

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So if you have downloaded a picture from Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, then you will not be able

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to find metadata because they are already removed by the website.

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But some websites do not strip metadata from files, videos, or images when uploading them to their

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website.

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So if you were able to find a person's website, then you always want to check whether they have stripped

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all metadata from the images that they have uploaded to their website.

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In addition to that, some forums do not strip metadata from files, so whenever somebody uploads a

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certain picture, metadata will not be stripped and you will be able to gather information about their

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device and maybe the author or the username.

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Now here we have some examples that I found on GitHub.

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In your case, you might be able to find a picture on a website or on a forum.

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So what you want to do is just right mouse click and then save the image on your desktop, for example.

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And then you want to go to a website like metadata to go.

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I'll put the link in the resources of this lecture, and then you want to click on View metadata.

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And then you want to upload the picture that you have downloaded.

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And this will analyze the picture to check whether there is any metadata.

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And as you can see, here are the information that we were able to find.

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We can scroll down and see that this is the phone that took the image.

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We can also see that the software, we can copy it and search for it on Google to get more information.

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We can also scroll down and see when this image has been taken.

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And in my opinion this is very important, especially in legal cases.

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You can scroll down more and here you can find the coordinates where this picture has been taken.

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There is another website called Exif tools that will show you the metadata of a picture.

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So you want to click on browse and then select the picture.

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And then click on upload file.

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And then it will analyze the file that you have uploaded.

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We can scroll down and here are the coordinates.

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We can click on View Larger maps to view where this image has been taken.

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And it were taken right here.

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The last thing that I'm going to show you is a browser extension that you can add it to your Firefox

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or Chrome browser.

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It's called Exif viewer, and then you want to click on Add to Firefox and then add again.

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And now every time you find a picture and you would like to see whether it has metadata or not, for

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example, this one, instead of downloading it you just have to right mouse click and then you'll find

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this option called Exif viewer.

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You want to click on it and then you will find the metadata of this picture.

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So we can see the model or the camera model which is Nokia 8.3.

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We can scroll down and find the coordinates of this picture.

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And you can open the coordinates on Google Maps, Bing or in this map.

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So in this lecture you have learned how you can read metadata from any image by downloading the image

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and then uploading it to a metadata service.

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Or you can view the metadata using a browser extension.