Posts tagged “Middle East and North Africa”
Senior Research Fellow Bill Marczak was featured in a Vanity Fair article exploring his discovery of the spyware used to target UAE dissident Ahmed Mansoor, detailed in a recent Citizen Lab report.
Citizen Lab’s research were featured in programs on Middle Eastern democracy by Alhurra and the world of online mercenaries offering hacking services by VICE, respectively.
Noman talked about how almost every political and religious conflict in the Arab world has now migrated to the Internet in the form of hacking and defacement.
This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch covers topics such as censorship and surveillance, blogger and netizen arrests, cyber attacks and technological developments from the region.
Noman discussed the recent Twitter compromises, techniques believed to be used (phishing URLs), and how the regional dimensions of the conflict in Syria is reflected on the Internet (e.g., defacement of Iranian and Russian websites over their support to Syrian regime).
This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, cyber attacks and technology.
This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger and netizen arrests, Internet and social media use, and more.
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.
The Citizen Lab published the inaugural issues of the weekly Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cyber Watch (replacing Iran Cyber Watch) and the monthly Southeast Asia Cyber Watch.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman was interviewed for a recent Wharton School article entitled, “Watch What You Type: Social Media a Tool for Revolutionaries, and Increasingly, for Security Agencies”
