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.

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.

We are pleased to announce that Marc Goodman has joined the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto as a Senior Fellow in Future Crime.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was featured in BBC Arabic 4 Tech programme in a discussion about a collective of pro-Assad hackers and online activists, who call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army.

In December 2011, we will celebrate the launch of Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, which is the third volume from the OpenNet Initiative.

Source: Marc Goodman, Forbes

Marc Goodman, the Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Senior Fellow in Future Crime, writes in Forbes magazine about the growing popularity of crowdsourcing by international organized crime groups and local neighborhood thugs.