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Secret Service: Norway plans surveillance of Internet traffic
The Norwegian government is pushing for a new surveillance law despite the pandemic. The secret service is to be allowed to store metadata from telephone and internet use for 18 months.
While the European public is preoccupied with the corona virus, the Norwegian government has sent a proposal for mass surveillance of telecommunications to parliament without much fuss. The new law would allow the Norwegian Foreign Intelligence Service to eavesdrop on any communication with foreign countries and to store metadata for up to 18 months.
Norwegian providers will be legally obliged to have the secret service mirror all cross-border data transfers. The secret service may, with the consent of a court, evaluate the data according to defined search criteria, so-called selectors.
The focus is on foreign contacts, the government says: data from within the country should be filtered out as far as possible. But even if some data is filtered, most communication on the Internet runs via servers in other countries. Metadata such as IP addresses of website calls would be stored millions of times over under the law, as would telephone numbers and the duration of calls abroad.
Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen considers the law to be unpostponable even in the pandemic. "Although the government's main concern at the moment is how to deal with the coronavirus situation, we must continue to work on other important issues," he said in writing in response to an inquiry from netzpolitik.org.
PDF:
https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/b7bada5f31bc482092318df675a2019d/no/pdfs/prp201920200080000dddpdfs.pdf
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The Norwegian government is pushing for a new surveillance law despite the pandemic. The secret service is to be allowed to store metadata from telephone and internet use for 18 months.
While the European public is preoccupied with the corona virus, the Norwegian government has sent a proposal for mass surveillance of telecommunications to parliament without much fuss. The new law would allow the Norwegian Foreign Intelligence Service to eavesdrop on any communication with foreign countries and to store metadata for up to 18 months.
Norwegian providers will be legally obliged to have the secret service mirror all cross-border data transfers. The secret service may, with the consent of a court, evaluate the data according to defined search criteria, so-called selectors.
The focus is on foreign contacts, the government says: data from within the country should be filtered out as far as possible. But even if some data is filtered, most communication on the Internet runs via servers in other countries. Metadata such as IP addresses of website calls would be stored millions of times over under the law, as would telephone numbers and the duration of calls abroad.
Defense Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen considers the law to be unpostponable even in the pandemic. "Although the government's main concern at the moment is how to deal with the coronavirus situation, we must continue to work on other important issues," he said in writing in response to an inquiry from netzpolitik.org.
PDF:
https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/b7bada5f31bc482092318df675a2019d/no/pdfs/prp201920200080000dddpdfs.pdf
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https://netzpolitik.org/2020/norwegen-plant-ueberwachung-des-internetverkehrs/
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U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service.
A memo seen by KrebsOnSecurity that the Secret Service circulated to field offices around the United States on Thursday says the ring has been filing unemployment claims in different states using Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to identity theft victims, and that “a substantial amount of the fraudulent benefits submitted have used PII from first responders, government personnel and school employees.”
“It is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far,” the Secret Service warned. “The primary state targeted so far is Washington, although there is also evidence of attacks in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Florida.”
The Secret Service said the fraud network is believed to consist of hundred of “mules,” a term used to describe willing or unwitting individuals who are recruited to help launder the proceeds of fraudulent financial transactions.
“In the state of Washington, individuals residing out-of-state are receiving multiple ACH deposits from the State of Washington Unemployment Benefits Program, all in different individuals’ names with no connection to the account holder,” the notice continues.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-massive-fraud-against-state-unemployment-insurance-programs/
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A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service.
A memo seen by KrebsOnSecurity that the Secret Service circulated to field offices around the United States on Thursday says the ring has been filing unemployment claims in different states using Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to identity theft victims, and that “a substantial amount of the fraudulent benefits submitted have used PII from first responders, government personnel and school employees.”
“It is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far,” the Secret Service warned. “The primary state targeted so far is Washington, although there is also evidence of attacks in North Carolina, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Florida.”
The Secret Service said the fraud network is believed to consist of hundred of “mules,” a term used to describe willing or unwitting individuals who are recruited to help launder the proceeds of fraudulent financial transactions.
“In the state of Washington, individuals residing out-of-state are receiving multiple ACH deposits from the State of Washington Unemployment Benefits Program, all in different individuals’ names with no connection to the account holder,” the notice continues.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/u-s-secret-service-massive-fraud-against-state-unemployment-insurance-programs/
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Secret Service bought access to cellphone location data
Locate X reportedly also worked with border agencies
The US Secret Service (USSS) signed a contract to access Locate X, a service that lets law enforcement track phone users’ locations. Motherboard published apparent confirmation of the deal this morning, following a Protocol report in March. The contract indicates that the USSS paid Virginia company Babel Street around $36,000 to add Locate X to a $2 million social media monitoring package.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21371886/secret-service-usss-locate-x-babel-street-foia-contract-report
#US #SecretService #privacy #surveillance
Locate X reportedly also worked with border agencies
The US Secret Service (USSS) signed a contract to access Locate X, a service that lets law enforcement track phone users’ locations. Motherboard published apparent confirmation of the deal this morning, following a Protocol report in March. The contract indicates that the USSS paid Virginia company Babel Street around $36,000 to add Locate X to a $2 million social media monitoring package.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/17/21371886/secret-service-usss-locate-x-babel-street-foia-contract-report
#US #SecretService #privacy #surveillance
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A new license to hack
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is to be allowed to hack mobile phone and Internet providers quite legally in the future. This is the result of the new BND draft law, which we are publishing. The Federal Constitutional Court had classified the old law as unconstitutional and overturned it.
The German Federal Intelligence Service is looking for hackers (m/f/d) via job advertisement and overwrites an employee story with a license to hack. Business trips abroad belong to the intelligence hackers like "unique" attack tools with which they are supposed to penetrate computer networks and collect data. The focus of the BND is on networks outside Germany. For a long time, the secret service agents considered non-European countries in particular to be "outlawed".
In May, the Federal Constitutional Court set the BND the highest judicial limits. The judges from Karlsruhe made it clear: Even abroad, the German state is bound by basic rights; human dignity and the secrecy of telecommunications apply not only to Germans. The highest court declared the only four-year-old BND law of the Grand Coalition unconstitutional.
The legislator must therefore amend the BND law by the end of 2021. The Federal Chancellery has prepared a draft bill and sent it to the other ministries on Friday. We publish the draft law in full text.
As the employer of the secret service, the Federal Chancellery tries with the new law to comply with the court's requirements on the one hand and to restrict the BND as little as possible on the other hand. This can be seen among other things in the offensive hacking powers.
👀 👉🏼 Translated from German with DeepL:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Draft law amending the law on the Federal Intelligence Service to implement the provisions of the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling of 19 May 2020 (1 BvR 2835/17)
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/#2020-09-25_Bundeskanzleramt_Referentenentwurf_BND-Gesetz
#bnd #germany #secretservice #law #hacking #netpolitics #thinkabout
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The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is to be allowed to hack mobile phone and Internet providers quite legally in the future. This is the result of the new BND draft law, which we are publishing. The Federal Constitutional Court had classified the old law as unconstitutional and overturned it.
The German Federal Intelligence Service is looking for hackers (m/f/d) via job advertisement and overwrites an employee story with a license to hack. Business trips abroad belong to the intelligence hackers like "unique" attack tools with which they are supposed to penetrate computer networks and collect data. The focus of the BND is on networks outside Germany. For a long time, the secret service agents considered non-European countries in particular to be "outlawed".
In May, the Federal Constitutional Court set the BND the highest judicial limits. The judges from Karlsruhe made it clear: Even abroad, the German state is bound by basic rights; human dignity and the secrecy of telecommunications apply not only to Germans. The highest court declared the only four-year-old BND law of the Grand Coalition unconstitutional.
The legislator must therefore amend the BND law by the end of 2021. The Federal Chancellery has prepared a draft bill and sent it to the other ministries on Friday. We publish the draft law in full text.
As the employer of the secret service, the Federal Chancellery tries with the new law to comply with the court's requirements on the one hand and to restrict the BND as little as possible on the other hand. This can be seen among other things in the offensive hacking powers.
👀 👉🏼 Translated from German with DeepL:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Draft law amending the law on the Federal Intelligence Service to implement the provisions of the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling of 19 May 2020 (1 BvR 2835/17)
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-eine-neue-lizenz-zum-hacken/#2020-09-25_Bundeskanzleramt_Referentenentwurf_BND-Gesetz
#bnd #germany #secretservice #law #hacking #netpolitics #thinkabout
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BND-Gesetz: Eine neue Lizenz zum Hacken – netzpolitik.org
Der Bundesnachrichtendienst soll künftig ganz legal Mobilfunk- und Internetanbieter hacken dürfen. Das geht aus dem Entwurf zum neuen BND-Gesetz hervor, den wir veröffentlichen. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hatte das alte Gesetz als verfassungswidrig eingestuft…
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German government decides on intelligence surveillance like in Snowden times
The German Federal Intelligence Service is to hack into mobile phone and Internet providers and monitor the communications of all customers. The German government has passed a bill to this effect. A new body, not the Federal Data Protection Commissioner, is to be responsible for oversight.
The German government today decided to again massively expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service. The cabinet approved the bill to amend the BND law, which will then go to the Bundestag.
The grand coalition had passed the current BND law in 2017 in response to the revelations by Edward Snowden and the intelligence investigation committee. At the time, our conclusion was, "Everything the BND does will simply be legalized. And even expanded." In May, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled the law unconstitutional and overturned it. Now the federal government is making a new attempt, which is likely to end up in court again.
We published the first draft in September and the second draft in November. Experts criticized the drafts: think tanks, journalists, press freedom NGOs, Internet associations and the Federal Data Protection Commissioner. Despite the opportunity to comment, the government did not change much.
Hacking, mass surveillance, metadata
Because the current BND law is based on unconstitutional basic assumptions, the Chancellor's Office has almost completely rewritten the law. We had already reported on many of the details. In the future, the foreign intelligence service will be allowed to legally hack not only individuals and devices, but also servers and service providers, including entire mobile and Internet providers.
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-bundesregierung-beschliesst-geheimdienst-ueberwachung-wie-zu-snowden-zeiten/
#mass #surveillance #germany #secretservice #goverment #privacy #hacking #metadata #mobilfunk #isp #thinkabout #netpolitics
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The German Federal Intelligence Service is to hack into mobile phone and Internet providers and monitor the communications of all customers. The German government has passed a bill to this effect. A new body, not the Federal Data Protection Commissioner, is to be responsible for oversight.
The German government today decided to again massively expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service. The cabinet approved the bill to amend the BND law, which will then go to the Bundestag.
The grand coalition had passed the current BND law in 2017 in response to the revelations by Edward Snowden and the intelligence investigation committee. At the time, our conclusion was, "Everything the BND does will simply be legalized. And even expanded." In May, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled the law unconstitutional and overturned it. Now the federal government is making a new attempt, which is likely to end up in court again.
We published the first draft in September and the second draft in November. Experts criticized the drafts: think tanks, journalists, press freedom NGOs, Internet associations and the Federal Data Protection Commissioner. Despite the opportunity to comment, the government did not change much.
Hacking, mass surveillance, metadata
Because the current BND law is based on unconstitutional basic assumptions, the Chancellor's Office has almost completely rewritten the law. We had already reported on many of the details. In the future, the foreign intelligence service will be allowed to legally hack not only individuals and devices, but also servers and service providers, including entire mobile and Internet providers.
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bnd-gesetz-bundesregierung-beschliesst-geheimdienst-ueberwachung-wie-zu-snowden-zeiten/
#mass #surveillance #germany #secretservice #goverment #privacy #hacking #metadata #mobilfunk #isp #thinkabout #netpolitics
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BND-Gesetz: Bundesregierung beschließt Geheimdienst-Überwachung wie zu Snowden-Zeiten – netzpolitik.org
Der Bundesnachrichtendienst soll Mobilfunk- und Internetanbieter hacken und die Kommunikation aller Kunden überwachen. Die Bundesregierung hat einen entsprechenden Gesetzentwurf beschlossen. Der Geheimdienst wächst weiter und bekommt nächstes Jahr erstmals…