Citizen Lab's latest news and announcements.
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.
Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert and Morgan Marquis-Boire spoke at Berlin’s recent Re:Publica conference on technology and culture which drew 6,000 attendees.
Morgan Marquis-Boire’s talk was featured in the Die Zeit (Germany’s largest weekly) and Der Spiegel.
Google’s Shane Huntley and Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire co-authored a presentation at BlackHat in Singapore on the targeting of journalists by government surveillance.
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.
