South Korea requires minors to have content filtering apps installed on their phones. A security audit of two child monitoring apps published by major Korean telecoms —KT Olleh Kidsafe and Clean Mobile Plus—finds serious security and privacy issues that put children at risk.
LINE is a popular messaging app in Asia, with more than 200 million monthly active users. It was launched in 2011 by LINE Corporation, a Japanese subsidiary of Naver Corporation in South Korea. Since that time, it has experienced rapid growth in several Asian markets, including Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan, boasting upwards of 200 million […]
Our report reveals that UC Browser poorly secures data in its English and Chinese language versions for Android.
This report, Islands of Control, Islands of Resistance: Monitoring the 2013 Indonesian IGF, is the first in a series of Citizen Lab reports that apply a mixture of methods, from technical interrogation to field research and social and legal analyses, to study information controls in and around particular events. This report focuses on information controls in and around Indonesia’s hosting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
Security Researcher and Citizen Lab Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire warns that this Trojan has been specifically crafted to target people attempting to evade government censorship. This blog post is written in Farsi.
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will give a talk entitled A Perfect Storm in Cyberspace.