Peter King, R-N.Y., recently told a hearing about military insider threats. “The Fort Hood attack was not an anomaly,” Rep. It should be noted that US military intelligence believes insider threats are steadily increasing, with authorities identifying at least five instances of plots or attacks from troops who had become “radicalized.” It remains unclear whether the tracking will be limited to official government computers, or how many troops might be monitored during the development phase which could take up to two years. posts from social media, news sites, and web forums and storing them on Amazon S3 repositories. The project, officially dubbed the “Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program,” can best be described as “insider threat detection in which malevolent (or possibly inadvertent) actions by a trusted individual are detected against a background of everyday network activity.” The military has earlier balked at monitoring its service members for extremist political views because of First Amendment protections, but the current pilot program will depend on a private surveillance firm to avoid the First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, as per a senior Pentagon official. Pentagon Accidentally Exposes Web Monitoring Operation. (Hasan was in contact with Islamic extremists overseas before the shooting). Bradley Manning who allegedly downloaded thousands of classified documents, or Army major Nidal Hasan who stands accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in New Jersey. The Pentagon is kicking of a new initiative to monitor military emails in an attempt to detect insider threats.īacked by DARPA, the project seeks to create “a suite of algorithms detecting multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data – including email, text messages and file transfers – for unusual activity.”Īccording to the Army Times, military officials hope to identify potential security threats like WikiLeaks suspect Pfc. Nov 24 (Reuters) - The United States Department of Defense late on Tuesday said it will establish a new group to investigate reports on the presence of UFOs in restricted airspace.
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