Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogThe Real Lesson of SignalGate
“We are currently clean on OPSEC.” Those infamous words, typed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth into a Signal group created by White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to coordinate U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, could not have been further from the truth. As the entire world knows by now, the Signal group’s security was…
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✴︎ mediaTVO Agenda
How Cyber Espionage Threatens Democracy in the Era of Trump Thanks to Steve Paikin for having me on TVO Agenda to discuss my new book, Chasing Shadows, the work of the Citizen Lab, and the disturbing descent into techno-fascism in the United States How Cyber Espionage Threatens Democracy in the Era of Trump Or on…
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✴︎ blogParagon’s Spyware: A first look at infrastructure, customers and victims
The Citizen Lab published the first reports on the abuse of numerous mercenary spyware firms’ products, including Gamma Group (2012), Hacking Team (2012), Dark Matter (Stealth Falcon) (2016), NSO Group (2016), Cyberbit (2017), Circles (2020), Candiru (2021), Cytrox’s Predator (2021), and Quadream (2023). And now here we are with yet another first: a report on Paragon Solutions. Founded in Israel in 2019, Paragon sells a spyware product called Graphite, which reportedly…
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✴︎ blogChasing Shadows is a National Bestseller!
Thanks everyone who has picked up a copy of Chasing Shadows and helped make it a national bestseller in Canada! UPCOMING APPEARANCES Wednesday March 5th: International Spy Museum, Washington DC (with Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post). Details: https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/chasing-shadows-with-ronald-deibert-and-ellen-nakashima/2025-03-05/ Monday March 10th: City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA (with Eva Galperin and Cindy Cohn of…
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✴︎ mediaSpy Talk
Always a pleasure to speak to Michael Isakoff, this time on SpyTalk, discussing my new book Chasing Shadows. Listen to the episode here.
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✴︎ mediaThe Herle Burley Show
Great conversation with David Herle, for the Herle Burley Show. You can listen here.
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✴︎ mediaCBC Sunday Magazine
Had a great conversation with guest host David Common on CBC Sunday Magazine about my new book, Chasing Shadows. Listen to the interview here.
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✴︎ mediaCTV Social
I had a great time talking to the folks on CTV Social about my new book, Chasing Shadows Watch the clip here.