[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report: Bitter Sweet: Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted With NSO Exploit Links

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report , entitled “Bitter Sweet: Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted With NSO Exploit Links,” authored by John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

Hi LibTech The Citizen Lab is releasing a new report today authored by Jeffrey Knockel, Adam Senft, and myself, entitled: "WUP! There It Is: Privacy and Security Issues in QQ Browser."* The report is a continuation of the research we have been doing on privacy and security issues in popular

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report: Baidu's and Don'ts

Hi Liberation Tech Thought the list might be interested in the post I published yesterday evening about our new Citizen Lab report: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/2016/02/down-on-the-baidu/ Today, the Citizen Lab is releasing a new report, “Baidu’s and Don’ts: Privacy and Security Issues in

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report

Hi Liberation Tech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report we are releasing today, which I thought might be of interest. The report documents a threat actor who, for the past seven years, has run a large-scale targeted digital attack campaign in several countries of South America.

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report

Dear Libtech The Citizen Lab has published a new report this morning, called "Pay No Attention to the Server Behind the Proxy: Mapping FinFisher’s Continuing Proliferation." The research is a continuation of several prior reports of ours that attempt to map the infrastructure of FinFisher, a

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report Digital Risks to Minors from South Korea's Smart Sheriff Application

Dear Libtech Today, the Citizen Lab is releasing a new report, entitled: "Are the Kids Alright? Digital Risks to Minors from South Korea's Smart Sheriff Application." South Korea is unique among all countries in having a legal mandate that requires parents whose minor children have mobile

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

Hi LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report, entitled A Chatty Squirrel: Privacy and Security Issues with UC Browser. Links to the report and some supplementary documents, as well as a summary of key findings are outlined below. The CBC is publishing a related news item here

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report published today, authored by Morgan Marquis-Boire and entitled Schrodinger?s Cat Video and the Death of Clear-Text. The key findings are outlined below: ? Commercial network injection appliances are actively targeting

Re: [liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report on Hacking Team's Government Surveillance Malware

I skimmed this earlier today and plan to read it in depth later: it looks like superb work. The most disturbing thing about it is the realization that this can't possibly be the only such project. Surely there are others. Many others. And since there are others, it's necessary to ask: are any

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report. Blue Coat Errors: Sites Miscategorized as “Pornography”

Dear LibTech Citizen Lab has released a new research report, authored by Bennet Haselton, entitled Blue Coat Errors: Sites Miscategorized as “Pornography” Summary: As a follow-up to our post about the number of sites miscategorized by SmartFilter, our tests with Blue Coat show that

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report, authored by Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, Morgan Marquis-Boire, John Scott-Railton, and Sarah McKune, called Hacking Team's US Nexus. This report is the third in a series on Hacking Team's global proliferation, this time

Re: [liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

Excellent report, but a question: why always the caveat that the spyware is sold exclusively to goverments? Is there no evidence that companies, detective agencies and other entities could be using similar means to track their own critics? Or that some governments pass the

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce the latest Citizen Lab publication: Some Devices Wander by Mistake: Planet Blue Coat Redux Morgan Marquis-Boire (project leader), Collin Anderson (lead technical research), Jakub Dalek (lead technical research), Sarah McKune (lead legal research), John

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report: Permission To Spy

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report: Permission to Spy: An Analysis of Android Malware Targeting Tibetans April 1, 2013 Key Findings A compromised version of Kakao Talk, an Android-based mobile messaging client, was sent in a highly-targeted email to a prominent