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Amid numerous malicious attacks leveraging the current COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, security researchers have discovered an Android surveillance campaign targeting users in Libya. One of the COVID-19-themed attacks appears to be part of a larger mobile surveillance campaign operating out of Libya and targeting Libyan individuals, Lookout reveals.
Kristin Del Rosso and other threat researchers with cybersecurity company Lookout have found a new kind of coronavirus cyberattack designed to spread potentially malicious Android applications that appear to be the most recent piece of tooling in a larger mobile surveillance campaign operating out of Libya and targeting Libyan individuals. At least three new apps related to coronavirus have been created using the same infrastructure as those applications and the Lookout investigation discovered that they can be traced back to IP addresses operated by Libyan Telecom and Technology, a consumer internet service provider.
Pervasive surveillance through digital technologies is the business model of Facebook and Google. Speaking elsewhere, Netanyhau said the digital tools are those used by Israeli security agency Shin Bet to observe terrorists.
The U.S. Senate has voted to extend, rather than tweak, three surveillance powers that federal law enforcement officials use to fight terrorists, passing the bill back to an absent House and throwing the future of the authorities in doubt. The House last week passed a compromise bill negotiated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy that would renew the authorities and impose new restrictions.
Current and former officials say just because a FISA warrant produces charges other than national security ones doesn't mean the target is no longer considered a national security threat. Prosecutors produced a statement from Attorney General William Barr saying the FISA materials held classified information about counterterrorism investigations and that disclosing them would harm national security.
Three surveillance powers available to the U.S. government are set to temporarily expire Sunday after a trio of senators opposed a bipartisan House bill that would renew the authorities and impose new restrictions. The three senators, longtime critics of government surveillance, said the House bill would still give the government too much power to surveil Americans.
House lawmakers prepared to extend surveillance authorities that expire this month, releasing legislation that represents a rare bipartisan agreement after members of both parties said they wanted to ensure the tools preserved civil liberties. House Democrats posted the text of a bill online, readying the legislation for a floor vote Wednesday before lawmakers leave Washington at the end of the week.
Facial recognition is a technology that can be used to identify people without their knowledge or consent. There is an entire industry of data brokers who make a living analyzing and augmenting data about who we are - using surveillance data collected by all sorts of companies and then sold without our knowledge or consent.
A newly-introduced bill is proposing sweeping privacy reforms to a controversial government surveillance program, which has been previously used by the National Security Agency to vacuum up the call records of millions of Americans. The bill closes loopholes in vague language used by Section 215 for justifying mass surveillance sans warrant.
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill that aims to reform the National Security Agency's surveillance programs in an effort to protect citizens' rights. The senator, a vocal critic of the NSA's surveillance programs, last year introduced a bill that sought to put an end to the mass collection of Americans' phone records.