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.

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.

We are pleased to announce that Drs. Brenden Kuerbis and Stefania Milan have joined us as Post-Doctoral Fellows.

Misha Glenny, an international bestselling author, will be speaking at the Munk School of Global Affairs on Monday, October 17th between 12pm and 2pm.

In a research paper [pdf] published in the journal Review of Policy and Research, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert and Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata discuss “the growing number of complex ethical and legal issues around cyberspace research, particularly in the area of security”.

Director Ron Deibert joined Al Jazeera’s The Stream via Skype to talk about a collective of pro-Assad hackers and online activists, who call themselves the Syrian Electronic Army.

Read the article and watch the video here.

In this op-ed article, author Jillian C. York discusses the tendency of activists to censor themselves using special tools like Tor, or staying off certain networks altogether, due to the knowledge that posting the wrong picture on Facebook can get them arrested, if not worse.

In this article, The Atlantic reports on the Syrian Electronic Army, an open and organized pro-government computer attack group that is operating with at least tacit support from the regime, who uses DDoS attacks, phishing scams, and other tricks to fight opposition activists online.