Jason Q. Ng in The Wall Street Journal
Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jason Q. Ng wrote a piece in The Wall Street Journal about the alleged China-related censorship on the international version of Bing.com, the search engine operated by Microsoft.
Three Citizen Lab staff in 2014 Canadian Foreign Policy Twitterati
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Special Advisor Robert Guerra and Post-doctoral Fellow Christopher Parsons were listed as one of CIC’s “2014 Canadian Foreign Policy Twitterati”.
Andrei Soldatov and Morgan Marquis-Boire quoted in The New Yorker
Andrei Soldatov and Morgan Marquis-Boire were interviewed for a New Yorker article on the surveillance in Sochi and the state of surveillance in Russia.
Andrei Soldatov interviewed on Q with Jian Ghomeshi
From the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Ghomeshi talked to Soldatov about the surveillance infrastructure Russia set up in anticipation of the Olympic Games.
MacArthur Foundation Awards $1 Million to Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab is one of seven nonprofit organizations around the world to receive the 2014 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
Internet Filtering in a Failed State: The Case of Netsweeper in Somalia
A new Citizen Lab report has found that Canada-based Netsweeper filtering products have been identified on three ISPs in Somalia.
Mapping Hacking Team’s Covert Surveillance Networks
This report maps out covert surveillance networks of “proxy servers” used to launder data that RCS exfiltrates from infected computers, through third countries, to an “endpoint,” which we believe represents the spyware’s government operator.
Appendix B: Samples
MD5 Country 946ea5bd506d1ad1d6fac3de1e010cd3 Egypt b520e9f198c365125d49e7894152eebb Hungary 8db7d5c8f282640b9cad55d8d2fa843d Italy 8527f71025a33d47275f6c145e099392 Italy 2f3222670d24071464e22e67921e423c Italy 16fefc84cef47090bcb459888ca4ee4a Italy a1d830653da9cd5daa5aa40239ec73ca Italy b732b34eb831308b58b8dcfc8130e547 Italy b9077ad27c77e0004782443bd5447f17 Italy 2192f9b0209b7e7aa6d32a075e53126d Italy cb8259668b17059f1078227995aad4c2 Italy a32e073132ae0439daca9c82b8119009 Italy 9c223cdebbd6870115a530869491a7a9 Kazakhstan 5ff61876e3fa55128554e413e77c3e55 South Korea bf080077d9d3c362e1f5c2b9e771fb8c Morocco 209a986d8e17d361424dc11ffc69511b Oman 2bd0b6ce1adc950e07ede94e18c9b726 Oman 6767becc4a72159f4306fdcbec723cc3 Oman 1e71cbf364fd05168a9ccaf435eb66e8 Saudi Arabia d115dd439788bf6344010aab606cb8d9 Saudi Arabia f8abcba6172d31a6602a85d7fcd30454 Saudi Arabia 6f2b145f3d078762daa7e0d33b18ad11 Saudi Arabia 23e93ac9b08487a2f0934d04ccd890d1 Turkey 66741da348171175d7be67b8b0e01318 Turkey… Read more »
Appendix A: List of Servers
We redact the last octet of the 186 IP addresses below that matched any of our fingerprints since 1 February 2014. IP Country Owner 101.99.83.12 MY PIRADIUS NET 103.1.185.xxx AU MAMMOTH MEDIA PTY LTD 106.186.118.191 JP LINODE LLC 106.186.16.48 JP LINODE LLC 106.186.17.xxx JP LINODE LLC 106.186.20.84 JP LINODE LLC 106.186.21.100 JP LINODE LLC 106.186.22.xxx… Read more »
Mapping Hacking Team’s “Untraceable” Spyware
This post is the second in a series of posts that focus on the global proliferation and use of Hacking Team’s RCS spyware, which is sold exclusively to governments.