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Guest Newsroom Post by Acclaimed Editor Shalin Hai-Jew

Visual Outputs of Maltego Radium

By IGI Global on May 13, 2013
Guest Newsroom Post by Shalin Hai-Jew, IGI Global editor and Instructional Designer at Kansas State University.

In the same way that much of the natural world is invisible to the naked eye, much in the electronic world is not particularly visible to most people. Some software tools are helping to change that.

Maltego Radium (v. 3.3.3) is a commercial penetration testing tool that collects data about organizations’ electronic networks. It enables the revelations of online connections for aliases, in order to connect those to personally identifiable information (PII) and people’s actual identities. This software tool maps the social networks of various microblogging accounts. It enables the identification of the electronic networks based on physical locations. It maps domain-level networks from those of countries to those of a particular website. This tool can track the uses of particular devices on a network. Ultimately, this tool enables the raising of awareness of social and technological presences (footprints) across the Internet and Web through the running of “machines” and “transforms”.

As a “pen” testing tool, it enables organizations to map their own networks to understand potential “attack vectors" or security vulnerabilities. However, as with most software tools, there are dual use issues—and wider applications for organizations for academic marketing and outreach. This tool increases what is “knowable” online.

The visual outputs by Maltego Radium are interactive and include half-a-dozen visualizations in a social network (node-link) format.

Visual Outputs of Maltego Radium

Here is a screenshot of the crawl of IGI-Global's twitterverse, which ties it to messages and a geolocation. Dr. Hai-Jew recently wrote an article entitled Crawling IGI Global’s Twitterverse, which further explores the functionality of graph visualization of its social networks. Use the following link to view more of Dr. Hai-Jew's articles and information on her publications.

Potential users can access a professional version of Maltego Radium available through subscription. There is also a public version available with access to a publicly-shared server for the data extractions.

Dr. Hai-Jew will be presenting “Maltego Radium: Mapping Network Ties and Identities across the Internet” at the upcoming Conference on Higher Education Computing in Kansas (CHECK) Conference at Pittsburg State University from May 29 – 30, 2013.

To access a Shockwave Flash version of her slideshow, go to http://www.k-state.edu/ID/Maltego.swf. A downloadable .pptx version is available at http://www.k-state.edu/ID/Maltego.pptx.

The South Africa-based Paterva is the maker of Maltego Radium.


Shalin Hai-Jew is editor of several IGI Global titles, including Virtual Immersive and 3D Learning Spaces, Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online, Digital Imagery and Informational Graphics in E-Learning: Maximizing Visual Technologies, and most recently, Open-Source Technologies for Maximizing the Creation, Deployment, and Use of Digital Resources and Information. Dr. Hai-Jew has also edited a text forthcoming in August titled Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis: Data Visualization, Spatialization, Predictiveness, and Multidimensionality.

She works as an instructional designer at Kansas State University and teaches for WashingtonOnline (WAOL). She writes as Eruditio Loginquitas in the blog she founded named Instructional Design Open Studio (IDOS). She is currently a reviewer for Educause Quarterly and MERLOT’s Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT), both by invitation. This is the second of two posts featuring her work on social media analysis.
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