World Press Freedom Day: Don’t kill the cyber-messenger
This post is written by Citizen Lab Visiting Fellow Luis Horacio Najera on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2013.
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Canada Centre Senior Fellow John Sheldon at the UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2013
Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Fellow in Security Studies John Sheldon was at the United Nations Institute for...
Call for Applications: Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
The Citizen Lab, the Faculty of Information, and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto...
Director Ron Deibert to speak at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto
On 1 April Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will give a talk at the Gardiner Museum for...
Citizen Lab Wins the 2013 CLA Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Award
The Canadian Library Association has recently announced that the Citizen Lab has been chosen as the winner of the 2013...
Director Ron Deibert at the Scientific Council for Government Policy Event
Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert gave a keynote speech entitled “The global battle for the future of...
Honorable mention for Citizen Lab Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire on “Influential IT security minds” list
SCMagazine has named Morgan Marquis-Boire on its honorable mention list of Influential IT security minds in 2012.
You Only Click Twice: FinFisher’s Global Proliferation
This post describes the results of a comprehensive global Internet scan for the command and control servers of FinFisher’s surveillance software. It also details the discovery of a campaign using FinFisher in Ethiopia used to target individuals linked to an opposition group. Additionally, it provides examination of a FinSpy Mobile sample found in the wild, which appears to have been used in Vietnam.
Read MoreCitizen Lab research in Bloomberg Business Week
Joint Citizen Lab and University of New Mexico research on Chinese online surveillance has been profiled in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Civil Society Hung Out to Dry in Global Cyber Espionage
Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune have authored a new article in CircleID...
“Nilliajut” (Speak Up, Speak Out) Film Presented at the 2013 Munk-Arctic Security Program Conference
Nilliajut (to speak up, speak out) is the title of a film and companion text produced by Inuit Qaujisarvingat: Inuit...
Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune on investments into Blue Coat
Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune wrote an editorial entitled “Teachers’ pension plan...
2012 Google Policy Fellow Kieran Bergmann on the IGF
In a piece for the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), 2012 Google Policy Fellow Kieran Bergmann wrote about Internet...
Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools
Blue Coat Devices capable of filtering, censorship, and surveillance are being used around the world. During several weeks of scanning...
