News
Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Scholar Marc Goodman writes an article for CNN entitled How technology makes us vulnerable.
This issue of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cyber Watch covers issues such as blogger and netizen arrests, Internet and social media use, censorship and filtering, hacktivism, government control, and cyber warfare.
Senior Advisor Robert Guerra acted as a moderator at the IGF-USA, an event which defined and assessed the challenges of an open Internet at Georgetown Law Center.
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan is taking part in the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
In the French edition of Slate magazine, Citizen Lab is featured in an article about the Dark Comet software application that has recently been linked to attacks on activists in Syria.
A roundup of cyber news from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This week’s post includes updates on Syria, use of Internet technology in Tunisia to advance freedom, blogger arrests, and social media news.
In an Internet survey conducted by the Iranian state television’s Shabakeye Khabar (News Network), conducted on June 3, 2012, 63 percent of respondents said that they would like to see a stop to uranium enrichment activity in order to halt sanctions against the country. The network later claimed that the results were manipulated by hackers.
Citizen Lab Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata participated in a plenary panel at the Seoul International Media Conference where he spoke about the work of the Citizen Lab and the four phases of Internet regulation.
A roundup of cyber news from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This week’s post includes, WikiLeak’s release of information on Syria, cyber-defence in Iran, blogger arrests in Morocco, as well as cyber surveillance across the region.
Luis Horacio Nájera spoke about the youth movement known as YoSoy132 and their activities during the presidential campaign.