CSIS352 Adams State College Social Media and Open Source Intelligence Paper Part 1 Respond to the attached student post in 300 words or more Part 2 Answ

CSIS352 Adams State College Social Media and Open Source Intelligence Paper Part 1

Respond to the attached student post in 300 words or more

Part 2

Answer the below question in 500 words or more

The power of social media and the information gleaned from Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is prodigious. The use of social media can also change the course of human events. Can you think of other examples?other than the Arab Spring as discussed in the readings?that might benefit from Social Network intelligence employing cyber intelligence techniques?

Reference
Hodges, Jim “OSINT Goes Social,” Trajectory Magazine (Fall 2012). Accessed at: http://trajectorymagazine.com/civil/item/1307-osint.html.

Ivan, Adrian, Claudia Iov, Raluca Lutai, Raluca, and Marius Grad. “Social Media Intelligence: Opportunities and Limitations,” CES Working Papers 7, no. 2a (2015), 505-510.

Omand, David, “Introducing Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT),” Intelligence and National Security 27, No. 6, pp. 801?823.

You can also use your own sources if needed New! Haag – Week 6
Jeremiah Haag (Jun 10, 2019 8:39 AM) – Read by: 3
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Good morning Class, Dr. Burch;
The week six forum question focused on the power of social media and the information gleaned
from Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) being prodigious and powerful enough to change the
course of human events. We were asked to provide examples that might benefit from Social
Network intelligence employing cyber intelligence techniques.
Open source intelligence is actually a big part of my current assignment. The Army has hundreds
of public facing websites and it is the mission of my team to conduct vulnerability assessments,
operational security (OPSEC) and compliance reviews as well as scan for personally identifiable
information (PII) violations. My team scans upwards of 100 URLs per week containing more
than 25,000 files at a time to ensure that the Army community is not inadvertently sharing
information in an open source environment that shouldn’t be visible to the general public. That’s
not to say that there aren’t other sites that Soldiers can’t divulge information as my team is only
authorized to scan public facing .mil domains. We cannot look at social media platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram etc. where Soldiers are placing information every day as well.
Additionally, the team is not authorized to conduct penetration testing or red team style missions
on these sites.
Back in 2015, ISIS released a hit list with 100 names on it, and was asking for sleeper members
of their organization to track down and murder the individuals named on their list. The list
matched pretty closely with service member’s names that had been released in various news
articles and sources available to the open public referencing air strikes that were taking place
during that time. ISIS issued an even larger hit list the following year with close to 700 names on
it. The official word from the Pentagon is that these names were retrieved via publically
accessible sources, but many question whether or not it was the result of a hacking operation on a
government site.
Since the inception of social media, adversarial organizations have been scanning these sites and
in certain instances, service member’s family members have been targeted via these platforms.
Also in 2015, ISIS was able to hack a military spouse Twitter account and was posting
threatening messages divulging the spouses full legal names and informing them that ISIS “knew
everything about them” (Hoffman, 2015). An FBI investigation was launched into the validity of
the threats as a result.
It’s not just terrorists that are using social media and open source intelligence capabilities. Nation
States, even the United States uses dual persona capabilities to infiltrate adversary’s social media
platforms for intelligence gathering purposes as well as a method to spread pro-American
propaganda. One of the offensive cyber operations techniques is to suppress negative messages
with positive messages. It is one of those low-hanging fruit opportunities that doesn’t require any
specific skill set, but can be effective if the adversary is posting negative messages and those are
immediately suppressed with positive messages. The information operations mission includes
many techniques such as this one.
Hoffman, M. (2015) Military Spouses Threatened by ISIS Affiliate on Twitter, Facebook.
Retrieved from: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/02/10/military-spouses-threatenedby-isis-affiliate-on-twitter-facebo.html
Jarvis, J. (2011) Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media. Retrieved from:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

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