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      Secret White House Warrantless Surveillance Program

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Thursday, 23 November - 02:03

    There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance :

    According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.

    The DAS program, formerly known as Hemisphere, is run in coordination with the telecom giant AT&T, which captures and conducts analysis of US call records for law enforcement agencies, from local police and sheriffs’ departments to US customs offices and postal inspectors across the country, according to a White House memo reviewed by WIRED. Records show that the White House has, for the past decade, provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure—­a maze of routers and switches that crisscross the United States.

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      Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Saturday, 29 July, 2023 - 11:23

    National Security Agency headquarters.

    National Security Agency headquarters. (credit: Trevor Paglen, Wikimedia Commons )

    An effort by United States lawmakers to prevent government agencies from domestically tracking citizens without a search warrant is facing opposition internally from one of its largest intelligence services.

    Republican and Democratic aides familiar with ongoing defense-spending negotiations in Congress say officials at the National Security Agency (NSA) have approached lawmakers charged with its oversight about opposing an amendment that would prevent it from paying companies for location data instead of obtaining a warrant in court.

    Introduced by US representatives Warren Davidson and Sara Jacobs, the amendment, first reported by WIRED , would prohibit US military agencies from “purchasing data that would otherwise require a warrant, court order, or subpoena” to obtain. The ban would cover more than half of the US intelligence community, including the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the newly formed National Space Intelligence Center, among others.

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      Details of an NSA Hacking Operation

      Bruce Schneier · news.movim.eu / Schneier · Wednesday, 2 March, 2022 - 20:35

    Pangu Lab in China just published a report of a hacking operation by the Equation Group (aka the NSA). It noticed the hack in 2013, and was able to map it with Equation Group tools published by the Shadow Brokers (aka some Russian group).

    …the scope of victims exceeded 287 targets in 45 countries, including Russia, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, etc. The attack lasted for over 10 years. Moreover, one victim in Japan is used as a jump server for further attack.

    News article .

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      Des élus européens demandent à Donald Trump de gracier Edward Snowden

      Julien Lausson · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 24 August, 2020 - 14:47

    Edward Snowden

    Donald Trump a laissé la porte ouverte à une éventuelle grâce présidentielle d'Edward Snowden. Plusieurs parlementaires européens ont depuis appelé le président américain à traduire cette pensée en acte. [Lire la suite]

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    L'article Des élus européens demandent à Donald Trump de gracier Edward Snowden est apparu en premier sur Numerama .

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      NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security

      Dan Goodin · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 13 August, 2020 - 23:59 · 1 minute

    NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens national security

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    The FBI and NSA have issued a joint report warning that Russian state hackers are using a previously unknown piece of Linux malware to stealthily infiltrate sensitive networks, steal confidential information, and execute malicious commands.

    In a report that’s unusual for the depth of technical detail from a government agency, officials said the Drovorub malware is a full-featured tool kit that was has gone undetected until recently. The malware connects to command and control servers operated by a hacking group that works for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency that has been tied to more than a decade of brazen and advanced campaigns, many of which have inflicted serious damage to national security.

    “Information in this Cybersecurity Advisory is being disclosed publicly to assist National Security System owners and the public to counter the capabilities of the GRU, an organization which continues to threaten the United States and U.S. allies as part of its rogue behavior, including their interference in the 2016 US Presidential Election as described in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections (Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2017),” officials from the agencies wrote.

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