Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

‘The Chinese Are Not Going to Stop’

The news that the attack on Google in 2009 also compromised a database holding warrants for lawful intercept surveillance on users has raised fears about the security of national security data on private networks. Cyberspionage operations pose a serious ... [Published threatpost - The First Stop for Security News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: National Security, Database, Threat, Spear Phishing, Google Inc

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 4 reports

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

Aurora Hackers Said to Have Accessed Law Enforcement Targets

Chinese cyber marauders sought more than just information on activists -- they wanted access to FBI, DOJ investigations on spies in the U.S. CSO In January 2010, ogle shocked the cyber world by confessing it had been the target of an advanced persistent ... [Published CIO Magazine - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Operation Aurora, FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, Microsoft Corporation

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Amnesty International USA

Clapper, FISA, and the Future of Data Breach Litigation

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), permitting physical and electronic surveillance and collection of “foreign intelligence information,” became law in 1978 and has been continuously amended over the years, particularly after September 11, ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Litigation, Amnesty International USA, National Security

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Idaho Terrorism Suspect Waives Detention Hearing

The 30-year-old Uzbek national accused of a terrorist conspiracy in Idaho and Utah waived his right to a detention hearing in Boise Tuesday, and apparently avoided public disclosure of details of his alleged crimes.According to a federal court document, ... [Published New England Public Radio - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Custody, Terrorism, Conspiracy, Boise City (Idaho, United States)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 4 reports

Google Inc

Chinese Google Hack Targeted Classified Information; Suspects under Surveillance

A major security incident targeting Google servers in 2009 seems to have been triggered by counter-intelligence, new information reveals.According to an article in The Washington post, the hackers who attacked the Google China servers were looking for ... [Published Bitdefender - May 21 2013]

Entities: Surveillance, Classified Information, Google Inc

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Information Security and Privacy: A Guide to Federal and State Law and Compliance, 2013 ed.

Financial Services, Privacy + Data SecurityBookInformation Security and Privacy is a guide to federal and state law and compliance. This text provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on information security and data privacy laws. All major U.S. ... [Published Morrison & Foerster - May 18 2013]

Entities: Information security, Compliance, Federal

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

European Parliament

Fears of U.S. Mass Surveillance Spur Data Protection Proposals in Europe

From real-time snooping on Gmail to grabbing reporters’ phone records , the U.S. government’s surveillance powers are a hot topic at home. But the issue is also making waves in Europe. There, fears over U.S. spy agencies’ ability to “browse the cloud” ... [Published Slate Magazine - May 17 2013]

Entities: Data Protection, Surveillance, European Parliament, Personal Data, United States

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

George W. Obama After his first yea...

But now, Bush?s successor—who actually taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago—is continuing much of the Bush-Cheney parallel government and, in some cases, is going much further in disregarding our laws and the international treaties we?ve ... [Published Bulatlat.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Torture, CIA Central Intelligence Agency

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

US Court Allowed Gov To Spy On Citizens Almost 2000 Times

in Latest News 20 mins agoNew figures released by the Justice Department show that a US federal court allowed the government to search or monitor citizens almost 2000 times in 2012, a 5% increase on the previous year.The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ... [Published RINF.com - May 05 2013]

Entities: Electronic Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Intelligence

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 2 reports

Obama Civil Liberties Nominee: âInappropriateâ to Profile Foreigners from High-Risk Countries

Next week, the Senate will vote on Obama’s nominee to Chair the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, David Medine. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, followed up the confirmation hearing with a list ... [Published Breitbart.com - May 04 2013]

Entities: Profiling, Wilmer Hale, Lanny Davis, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work

A rubber-stamp could be the symbol of the Fisa court. Photograph: Getty In the mid-1970s, an investigation by the US Senate, conducted by the Church Committee, uncovered decades of serious, systemic abuse by the US government of its eavesdropping powers: ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 03 2013]

Entities: Drone, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Anti-War, Abuse

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

Spy court OK'd all U.S. wiretap requests it received in 2012

A special court established to review government requests for warrants to conduct electronic surveillance of suspected foreign spies received close to 1,900 warrant requests last year -- all of which it approved.A report released earlier this week by ... [Published Computerworld Australia - May 03 2013]

Entities: Surveillance, United States, Electronic Surveillance, Foreign Intelligence

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"My comments were not meant to cite any specific Microsoft analysis or findings about motive or attacks, but I recognize that my language was imprecise" he added

Aurora Hackers Said to Have Accessed Law Enforcement Targets [Published CIO Magazine - 5 hours ago]

Furthermore, Aucsmith said the appeared to be "a reconnaissance mission hackers were conducting to determine what type of surveillance U S authorities were conducting on undercover operatives through records obtained from the software giant via court orders."

Will Chinese hackers launch re-tread attacks into surveillance databases? [Published NetworkWorld - 13 hours ago]

...Another document filed a few hours before the detention hearing disclosed the intent to provide evidence "obtained or derived from electronic surveillance or physical search conducted pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" or FISA

Idaho Terrorism Suspect Waives Detention Hearing [Published New England Public Radio - 17 hours ago]

...$ "There's more trust being given to cloud services than some of them deserve," he said in an interview. "It has become so easy [to store data somewhere else] that you might store something somewhere without thinking whether or not you really ought to do that." $ $

Chinese hackers said to have accessed law enforcement targets [Published Computerworld - 17 hours ago]

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