Canada Centre for Global Security Studies

07/10/2013

New Citizen Lab report, the third on Blue Coat:

Some Devices Wander by Mistake: Planet Blue Coat Redux

By Morgan Marquis-Boire, Collin Anderson, Jakub Dalek, Sarah McKune, and John Scott-Railton.

https://citizenlab.org/2013/07/planet-blue-coat-redux/

06/20/2013

New Citizen Lab report: O Pakistan, We Stand on Guard for Thee: An Analysis of Canada-based Netsweeper’s Role in Pakistan’s Censorship Regime

https://citizenlab.org/2013/06/o-pakistan/

Netsweeper filtering products have been installed on Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL)'s network. PTCL is Pakistan's largest telecommunications company and also operates the Pakistan Internet Exchange Point.

05/10/2013

We are pleased to announce that Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert’s forthcoming book "Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace" will be released on 21 May 2013.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert’s forthcoming book Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace will be released on 21 May 2013.

05/03/2013

In honour of World Press Freedom Day, Citizen Lab Visiting Fellow and journalist Luis Horacio Najera writes on the concept of "press freedom." Report also available in Spanish (scroll down).

This post is written by Citizen Lab Visiting Fellow Luis Horacio Najera on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2013.

04/16/2013

Canada Centre Senior Fellow John Sheldon's remarks at the UNIDIR Space Security Conference 2013 are now available. His talk focused on the legal and political realities of current space security issues as well as the next steps for space security.

Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Fellow in Security Studies John Sheldon was at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Space Security Conference 2013. The conference was held on 2-3 April 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland, and featured experts from all over the worl...

04/15/2013

The Citizen Lab, the Faculty of Information, and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto are convening a Connaught Summer Institute on monitoring Internet openness and rights from a multidisciplinary perspective, on July 22-26, 2013. Click for more information and application requirements.

The Citizen Lab, the Faculty of Information, and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto are convening a Connaught Summer Institute on monitoring Internet openness and rights from a multidisciplinary perspective. The week-long workshop will take place on July…

04/08/2013

Webcast: Will Britain Leave the European Union? Charles Clarke, former UK Home Secretary, Education Secretary, and close ally of Tony Blair gave a public lecture on the UK’s place within the European Union at the Munk School. Watch here!

04/02/2013

The Citizen Lab's newest Research Brief reports on a malware attack in which a compromised version of Kakao Talk, an Android-based mobile messaging client, was sent in a highly-targeted email to a prominent individual in the Tibetan community. The malware is designed to send a user’s contacts, SMS message history, and cellular network location to attackers.

This Citizen Lab post reports on a malware attack in which a compromised version of Kakao Talk, an Android-based mobile messaging client, was sent in a highly-targeted email to a prominent individual in the Tibetan community. The malware is designed to send a user’s contacts, SMS message history, an...

03/01/2013

The latest Citizen Lab Research Brief explores how malware (“GLASSES”) sent in 2010 is closely related to the GOGGLES malware described by Mandiant in their APT1 report. GLASSES was sent in a highly targeted email to a Tibetan human rights organization, with attacks against civil society actors documented as early as almost three years ago. The GOGGLES sample we discovered that communicates to the shared C2 server is not exactly the same as described in the Mandiant report, indicating that GLASSES may be a variant of GOGGLES, and that the software has been used while under active development.

This report describes malware ("GLASSES") sent in 2010 that is a simple downloader closely related to malware described by Mandiant in their APT1 report.

02/06/2013

Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune have written an op-ed in today's Toronto Star: "Teachers’ pension plan invests in Internet surveillance firm," connecting the investment group that manages the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) with Blue Coat Systems.

Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune wrote an op-ed in the 6 February edition of the Toronto Star. Titled “Teachers’ pension plan invests in Internet surveillance firm,” the editorial connects the investment group that manages the Ontario Teachers Pen...

02/01/2013

Register now for our event on Feb 5 entitled "HarassMap: Social Mapping, Sexual Harassment and Violence in Egypt." This discussion will explore the HarassMap project, which encourages victims and witnesses to anonymously report sexual harassment as soon as it happens, using a simple text message, which is plotted on a map to pinpoint “hot spots” where incidents occur.

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12/14/2012

Watch our interview with Misha Glenny, author of Darkmarket, as he explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the 21st century: cyber crime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage.