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The trajectories of the U.S. and Chinese governments on cyber security have officially diverged with the May 19 unsealing of an indictment against five Chinese nationals accused of cyber espionage against U.S. companies.
In 2012, together with Eva Galperin from the EFF, Citizen Lab researchers Morgan Marquis-Boire and Seth Hardy identified the use of BlackShades in the targeting of opposition forces in Syria. This work has been featured in the recent coverage of the world wide “BlackShades busts” by the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, The Telegraph, and ThreatPost.
On 11 April, Research Fellow John Scott-Railton gave a presentation on humanitarianism in the age of cyberwarfare at the ICT Humanitarian Forum in Luxembourg.
Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra was interviewed about Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) turning over a set of domain management functions to the Internet’s stakeholder community.
The Citizen Lab’s Cyber Stewards Network (CSN) was featured in the 2014 Asia Research News magazine, an annual publication highlighting interesting on-going research in universities and research institutions in Asia.
Ron Deibert was interviewed by Amanda Lang on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange about what’s changed with regard to online privacy since Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA.
Christopher Parsons was interviewed by a number of news outlets throughout April, loosely on the subjects of national security, critical digital infrastructure, and government transparency.
Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jason Q. Ng was featured in various media outlets this month, talking about media censorship in China.
Citizen Lab Senior Security Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire was interviewed for a piece in Wired magazine on Heartbleed, “a bug in the internet’s infrastructure that some are calling the worse thing they’ve seen in years.”
Citizen Lab has collaborated with Human Rights Watch to document Internet censorship in Ethiopia.
