On January 24, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed by the Toronto Star regarding Iranian government’s increased censorship of the Internet.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan attended the 28th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (28C3). The Congress is a four-day event on technology, society and utopia organised by the Chaos Computing Club (CCC).

On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will give a talk entitled A Perfect Storm in Cyberspace.

The Toronto Star has named Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert one of 12 influential Canadians whose thoughts influence the way the world works.

The Citizen Lab is proud to participate in the Google Policy Fellowship for the fourth time next summer. In June 2012, a Google Policy fellowship based at the Citizen Lab will be be offered to a student who is passionate about technology and Internet policy. Applications are due by February 3, 2012 by midnight Pacific time. For more information see the Google Policy Fellowship site.

The Citizen Lab currently has an opening for a full-time technical researcher to be based at the University of Toronto. The incumbent will provide technical and analytical support for research projects on Internet censorship, surveillance, cyber security and attacks (e.g. denial-of-service attacks, malware, etc), and related topics.

Canada Centre Senior Fellow Marc Goodman was interviewed by the Washington Post.

Source: The Toronto Star

Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra was interviewed in the Toronto Star about the newly released .XXX domains available for purchase.

On Monday, December 5, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Scholar Rafal Rohozinski and Jesse Hirsh, a Toronto-based Internet strategist, researcher and broadcaster will be participating in The Couchiching Institute roundtable.

One year ago, on November 28, 2010, five major newspapers including The New York Times and The Guardian simultaneously published the first 220 of 251,287 confidential US diplomatic cables collected by the whistle-blower organization known as WikiLeaks. Many things have changed since then, including our perception of hacktivism and of its role in the cyberpower game.