The New Art Theft: Your Digital Life Is the Canvas
The recent breach involving Canvas parent company Instructure highlights a growing and uncomfortable reality in modern cybersecurity: Data breaches are no longer simply technical incidents. They are intelligence collection operations. On 11 May 2026, Instructure announced it had reached an agreement with hacking group ShinyHunters following a significant breach reportedly affecting approximately 275 million users […]
Why Modern Attacks Walk Straight Through Organisational Charts
How blended threats exploit digital intelligence gaps, siloed security teams, and fragmented response structures in modern organisations The modern threat landscape has changed fundamentally Malicious actors no longer operate within a single discipline, nor do they rely on isolated tactics. Today’s most effective threats are blended by design, combining digital intelligence exploitation, social engineering, physical […]
The coming collapse of open sources
By Colin Crowden GPT models are on track to become the default gateway to information. As competition intensifies, the biggest models will not rely on open sources. They willseek exclusive access to proprietary datasets. If that happens, the open internet willshrink, search engines will fade, and OSINT will face the most significant transformation in its […]
Patriots in Birmingham or Bots in Colombo?
X just handed intelligence analysts a gift. For a few short hours, the platform pushed a new feature that showed where each user was logging in from. This was not a glitch or a leak. It was an intentional feature release, only delivered without the due diligence or harm modelling that companies like Meta or […]
Automating OSINT Workflows to Put the ‘Analysis’ Back into Intelligence
Here at the Fusion Hub I’m actively pursuing AI and automation in my OSINT team’s workflow so that analysts can focus on being analytical. My target is ambitious: give back 80% of their time to applying tradecraft, judgment, and creativity. The result? A rebalanced intelligence cycle that captures client direction more effectively, streamlines collection, and […]
Why Cognitive Diversity Builds Better Teams
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is not just a technical discipline. It is an investigative craft that thrives on curiosity, critical thinking, and context. The most effective OSINT teams are built not just on piloting technical tools but on diversity of thought, background, and lived experience. This concept struck me square in the face having met a […]
Starting a Revolution
Convergent Security and the Role of OSINT By Colin Crowden We are no longer dealing with simple, single-track threats. Today’s risks blend the physical, digital, reputational, and human. But most organisations? Still structured like it is the early 2000s. Siloed teams. Disconnected responses. No shared picture. What if there were a way to pull it […]