In a report published by The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, professor Ron Deibert argues that Canada has potential to be a global leader in cyber security, but this opportunity is being squandered because of the lack of a clear strategy in this area.

Brian Stewart’s piece for CBC News features Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert on the Russian cybercrime underworld.

Titled “800 Titles but no policy – Thoughts on Cyber Warfare,” the piece examines the cyber arms race and government responses to cyber warfare threats.

The annual Security Analyst Summit (SAS) is taking place from 3-7 February in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

This month’s Social Media Watch looks at the privacy concerns around Facebook’s Graph Search, an open letter to Skype detailing concerns about its practices, several noteworthy legislative privacy stories and several other policy, security and privacy stories from the social media community.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, former Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan and Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy will participate in a conference hosted by the International Relations Society on Saturday, 26 January 2013.

Professor Deibert was featured in a Christian Science Monitor piece on cybersecurity, Cyber Security Awakening in 2013: How vulnerable to attack is US now?.

This year-end report summarizes several trends and noteworthy happenings of the past 12 months, including an increase in government user data requests, a community governance decision-making debacle, and controversies around various privacy-oriented technical implementations.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke to Me Judice, a Dutch discussion forum, about new security issues in cyberspace.