On Tuesday, 29 November 2011, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will be participating in an event at the Media@McGill research centre at McGill University, Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism, One Year After Cablegate.

Following the release of Citizen Lab’s brief, Behind Blue Coat: Investigations of commercial filtering in Syria and Burma, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke to Marco Werman about the research findings on BBC’s The World.

Hosted by Access, the first ever Silicon Valley Human Rights conference was held to examine how the human rights and high tech sectors can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of new technologies

Citizen Lab Research Assistant James Tay presented a paper at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute’s (CDAI) Graduate Student Symposium.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan appeared in TVO’s The Agenda to speak about “hacktivism”, where activists would use their hacking skills to bring about political change.

Casting a Wider Net: Lessons Learned in Delivering BBC Content on the Censored Internet report primary author, Karl Kathuria, explain why it’s increasingly hard to foil censorship online in this week’s edition of BBC Click Radio programme.

Citizen Lab Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy spoke at SecTor, Canada’s 5th annual IT security conference, held in Toronto from October 17th to 19th, 2011. His session, titled What is an APT without a sensationalist name?, discussed targeted malware attacks against human rights organization.

In a new blog post, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan argues that as a result of the diffusion of social media, we have now entered the age of cloud protesting, where individuals and networked collective action have taken central stage.

We are pleased to announce that Sarah McKune has joined the Citizen Lab as Senior Researcher. Sarah will be working on the Lab’s comparative analysis of targeted malware attacks on human rights organizations, as well as research and analysis of international cyber security initiatives and related issues.