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✴︎ blogTargeted Malware Attack on Foreign Correspondents based in China
The Information Warfare Monitor has released a report entitled Targeted Malware Attack on Foreign Correspondents based in China, authored by Nart Villeneuve and Greg Walton. The report adds some interesting details to recent reports of targeted attacks against foreign correspondents in China, including details on the command and control servers. The report has been covered…
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✴︎ blogThe New, New Internet Interview
I recently did an interview with a Cyber Security news publication, curiously called “The New, New Internet.” You can read the full interview here.
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✴︎ blogOnline Censorship on rise in Middle East, North Africa
CBC News CBC News has posted a news item about the OpenNet Initiative’s Middle East and North Africa reports, just released. You can read the CBC news item here. The item also mentions the Citizen Lab’s GNI Monitor project: “The Citizen Lab, which runs out of the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies,…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Releases Middle East and North Africa reports
We (the OpenNet Initiative released our Middle East and North Africa research reports today. Some early press from the report here. We have put up a very useful extended Q and A here. Among the findings of the report is evidence of the use of commercial filtering products in the region. One of the manufacturers,…
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✴︎ blogAnnouncing the GNI Monitor!
We are pleased to announce a new project this summer in the Citizen Lab, called the “Global Network Initiative Monitor” or “GNI Monitor” for short. The project’s mission statement can be downloaded here. The project will combine technical and contextual research methods to measure compliance of both participants and non-participants to the GNI principles, as…
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✴︎ blogThe Wild Wild Web – Canadian Lawyer Magazine
A few months ago when a Canadian research group exposed the GhostNet, a brazen cyber-espionage network, the story briefly made headlines. Most of us marvelled at the ingenuity and nefariousness of the alleged perpetrator, the Chinese government. Some may have momentarily fretted about implications for international security. But the man who helped break the GhostNet…
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✴︎ blogOttawa needs a strategy for cyberwar
National Post (comment) June 30, 2009 Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Recently, the Canadian envoy to Iran was called in and admonished by Iranian officials for contributing to the destabilitization of the regime because of support for social networking tools, like Twitter and Facebook. The envoy must have scratched his head in puzzlement. The Iranians’…
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✴︎ blogNPR Here and Now interview
I did an interview with NPR’s Here and Now about psiphon and The Use of Proxy Servers in Iran.
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✴︎ blogPsiphon, Iran, and OpenNet Initiative
There is a lot going on right now on so many exciting fronts. We at the OpenNet Initiative have released three major reports: An Asian regional overview, and country reports on China and Iran. We released these at the ONI Asia regional meeting in Penang Malaysia. Thanks to the ONI team for all of their…
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✴︎ blogONI Bulletin on China’s Green Dam Filtering Software
The OpenNet Initiative has released a bulletin entitled “China’s Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC.” You can read more about it here. Executive Summary A recent directive by the Chinese government requires the installation of a specific filtering software product, Green Dam, with the publicly stated intent of protecting…