In a Toronto Star article on the Guelph tech firm accused of making tools to censor Internet abroad, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert commented on the Canadian company’s controversial activities.
A roundup of cyber news from the Middle East and North Africa region. This week’s post covers the Flame malware, censorship in social media and Google’s Transparency Report.
Morgan Marquis-Boire will participate at the Black Hat USA 2012 Conference, taking place in Las Vegas from 21-26 July 2012.
This week in Iran Cyber Watch: Iranian reaction to Flame malware, National Information Network, National Email, The Supreme Council of Cyberspace and more.
The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (Canada Centre) and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)) are pleased to announce the launch of the Cyber Stewards program.
The inaugural issue of Southeast Asia Cyber Watch contains news articles from Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam.
This week in Iran Cyber Watch: Flame Virus, More on Google-Map, Dating Website, National Search Engine, and more.
Citizen Lab Fellow Jon Penney writes that “among certain national-security and public-policy circles, there is a growing trend to approach the challenges of cyber-security and cyber-war through the lens of the Cold War.”
ASL19 is a non-for-profit organization which closely collaborates with the Citizen Lab researching the state of internet controls, circumvention and surveillance in Iran. We are currently looking for a full time research coordinator to join our team.
In a recent special feature on Internet censorship, The Guardian newspaper profiled the work of the OpenNet Initiative.
