Citizen Lab Research Assistant James Tay presented at CDAI event
Citizen Lab Research Assistant James Tay presented a paper at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute’s (CDAI) Graduate Student Symposium.
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan featured in TVO’s The Agenda (Updated)
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan appeared in TVO’s The Agenda to speak about “hacktivism”, where activists would use their hacking skills to bring about political change.
Canada Centre Visiting Research Fellow Karl Kathuria featured in BBC Click Radio programme
Casting a Wider Net: Lessons Learned in Delivering BBC Content on the Censored Internet report primary author, Karl Kathuria, explain why it’s increasingly hard to foil censorship online in this week’s edition of BBC Click Radio programme.
Citizen Lab Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy presents at SecTor Conference
Citizen Lab Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy spoke at SecTor, Canada’s 5th annual IT security conference, held in Toronto from October 17th to 19th, 2011. His session, titled What is an APT without a sensationalist name?, discussed targeted malware attacks against human rights organization.
Cloud protesting: Dissent in times of social media
In a new blog post, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan argues that as a result of the diffusion of social media, we have now entered the age of cloud protesting, where individuals and networked collective action have taken central stage.
Sarah McKune joins the Citizen Lab as Senior Researcher
We are pleased to announce that Sarah McKune has joined the Citizen Lab as Senior Researcher. Sarah will be working on the Lab’s comparative analysis of targeted malware attacks on human rights organizations, as well as research and analysis of international cyber security initiatives and related issues.
Marc Goodman joins the Canada Centre / Citizen Lab as Senior Fellow
We are pleased to announce that Marc Goodman has joined the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto as a Senior Fellow in Future Crime.
New major report tracks challenges of a censored internet for global broadcasters
An international research team, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, has released a detailed report that tracks and analyzes the difficulties of broadcasting the news into jurisdictions that censor the Internet, including Iran and China.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert interviewed by BBC Arabic
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was featured in BBC Arabic 4 Tech programme in a discussion about a collective of pro-Assad hackers and online activists, who call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army.
Third volume from OpenNet Initiative, “Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace”, available in December 2011
In December 2011, we will celebrate the launch of Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, which is the third volume from the OpenNet Initiative.