The August 2012 issue of Southeast Asia CyberWatch covers related developments in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

This issue of the Middle East and North Africa Cyber Watch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger arrests, cyber attacks, Internet and social media use, and technology.

The Citizen Lab has a full-time opening for a Software Developer to engage in software development to support a range of research projects at the intersection of information communications technologies, global security, and human rights.

This edition of the MENA Cyber Watch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger arrests, cyber attacks and more.

The July 2012 issue of Southeast Asia CyberWatch covers related developments in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

This issue of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cyber Watch covers issues such as blogger and netizen arrests, Internet and social media use, censorship and filtering, hacktivism, government control, and cyber warfare.

The Citizen Lab has analyzed recent targeted malware attacks against Tibetan organizations that share a common payload — LURK malware — and command-and-control server, as well as several other features.

The Citizen Lab announces the publication of a detailed post analyzing several pieces of malware targeting Bahraini dissidents, shared with us by Bloomberg News. The analysis suggests that the malware used is "FinSpy," part of the commercial intrusion kit, Finfisher, distributed by the United Kingdom-based company, Gamma International.

A roundup of cyber news from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This week’s post includes updates on Syria, use of Internet technology in Tunisia to advance freedom, blogger arrests, and social media news.

OpenNet Initiative research has documented that web filtering applied by India-based ISPs is also filtering content for customers of an ISP in Oman. This “upstream filtering” is restricting access to news sites, political blogs and file sharing sites for customer’s of Omantel, who have limited opportunities for recourse. Combined with the significant filtering implemented by Omantel itself, this essentially puts users in Oman behind multiple layers of national-level filtering.