[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

here: http://wpo.st/skzP1 Read the Wall Street Journal story here: http://on.wsj.com/1ohHbIy *The title "WUP! There It Is" is a reference to the insecure transmission of user data sent by QQ Browser across the network, which they designate as "WUP" requests. All the best

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

ripple far and wide in the ecosystem of interconnected applications and devices (e.g., the Heartbleed OpenSSL case). Read the full report here: https://citizenlab.org/2016/02/privacy-security-issues-baidu-browser/ Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report

the best Ron ps apologies for any cross posting. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab twitter.com/rondeibert r.deib...@utoronto.ca

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report

ated Press: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a46ad09bfcc142909deaadfac7504b8a/despite-exposure-new-nations-joining-cyberespionage-game Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/researchers-find-impossible-to-trace-spyware-in-32-countries All the best, Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen

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

https://citizenlab.org/2015/09/digital-risks-south-korea-smart-sheriff Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

, as well the lack of encryption on search queries, remain in this version. Users who use the Chinese version of UC Browser should upgrade the application and ensure they are running version 10.4.1-576 or above. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs University

[liberationtech] Globe and Mail Editorial

governments are on the right path? Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab twitter.com/rondeibert r.deib...@utoronto.ca

[liberationtech] Hacking Team Reloaded? US-Based Ethiopian Journalists Again Targeted with Spyware

findings documented in this report suggest that Hacking Team may have continued to provide updated versions of its spyware to the same attacker, despite reports of use of the spyware against journalists. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies

[liberationtech] Joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression

of the Appendix. The full submission can be found at the following link: https://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SR-FOE-submission.pdf [PDF} Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416

[liberationtech] Citizen Lab New Report

Media Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/state-sponsored-hackers-target-human-rights-groups-study-says/article21529014/ Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/11/china-cybercrime-civilliberties-idUSL1N0ST2XW2014 Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab research post on LINE Keyword Filtering

to the report is here: https://citizenlab.org/2014/10/asia-chats-line-keyword-filtering-upgraded-include-regular-expressions/ Regards Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP

[liberationtech] OTF Fellowship in Information Controls Research

, which run one year, and seasonal fellows, which are shorter. There is also a travel stipend. Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org

[liberationtech] Tenure track job posting at Citizen Lab / Munk School

cities in the world. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946

[liberationtech] Citizen Lab Summer Institute

with the workshop, and demonstrated need. Please indicate if you will require travel funding assistance to attend the workshop. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http

[liberationtech] Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014 Call for Proposals

acceptance for visa or other travel reasons. A limited pool of travel support is available and will be allocated based on the strength of the proposal, fit with the workshop, and demonstrated need. Please indicate if you will require travel funding assistance to attend the workshop. Ronald Deibert

[liberationtech] Asia Chats: LINE Censored Keywords Update

in the LINE client to disable regionally-based keyword censorship in the application Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http

[liberationtech] citizen lab community resources

be adding to it as we develop more outputs. hope this is of use. cheers rd Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http

[liberationtech] ‘FinFisher surveillance set up on servers under PTA’

in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2014. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deib

[liberationtech] Canadian Gov Telecom Subscriber Access

to disclose subscriber information without a warrant, but the pervasive warrantless disclosure is deeply troubling and represents an abdication by telecom providers of their responsibility to safeguard the privacy of their subscribers. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre

Re: [liberationtech] What ideas did you submit to the Knight News Challenge?

Citizen Lab submitted the following proposal Safeguarding the Fourth Estate: Teaching digital security and privacy to journalists Although the work of journalists is essential to the public interest, the widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has both enabled

[liberationtech] Maliciously Repackaged Psiphon Found

Psiphon Team and Karl Kathuria, Nart Villeneuve (FireEye) for first conclusively identifying this as njRAT, Morgan Marquis-Boire (Citizen Lab), Seth Hardy (Citizen Lab) and Irene Poetranto (Citizen Lab). Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies

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

-miscategorized-pornography/ Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deib

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

believe that the targets of the the spyware in these instances had some familiarity with these companies. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org

[liberationtech] Mapping Hacking Team’s “Untraceable” Spyware

for at least the past two years, and consider this vendor’s relationship with French exploit provider VUPEN. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http

[liberationtech] Reputation Matters: Unpacking the Microsoft China Censorship Scandal

and author of “Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter (And Why).” Follow him on Twitter @jasonqng Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http

[liberationtech] CSEC Snowden revelations

certainly illegal. Ronald Deibert told CBC News: I can't see any circumstance in which this would not be unlawful, under current Canadian law, under our Charter, under CSEC's mandates. The spy agency is supposed to be collecting primarily foreign intelligence by intercepting overseas phone

[liberationtech] Towards Transparency in Canadian Telecommunications

-this-spring-justice-minister-says/article16253334/. Ian MacLeod, “Spy agency admits it spies on Canadians ‘incidentally’,” Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2014, accessed January 19, 2014, http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/agency+admits+spies+Canadians+incidentally/9356255/story.html. Ronald Deibert

[liberationtech] Blackberry

algorithm, and the engineering security community as a whole is now dealing with this apparent lack of integrity among its members, in the case of BlackBerry's knowledge of the backdoors the implications are far more serious, said Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University

[liberationtech] Shedding Light on the Surveillance Industry

/first-steps-towards-curbing-digital-arms-exports-welcome/ 14 https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/export-controls-and-the-implications-for-security-research-tools Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab series of research posts on Asia chats

Dalek, Seth Hardy, Katie Kleemola, Byron Sonne, Greg Wiseman. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org

[liberationtech] IGF 2013: An Analysis of the 2013 IGF and the Future of Internet Governance in Indonesia (Part 4 of 4)

and cyber security. Together with our colleagues in the region, we will be monitoring developments in the country’s Internet governance agenda closely and support one that promotes democracy, human rights, transparency, and accountability. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre

[liberationtech] Monitoring Information Controls During the Bali IGF: New Citizen Lab post

to the content controls post, and Sinta Dewi Rosadi and Privacy International for their assistance on legal issues around wiretaps and surveillance. Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University

[liberationtech] Cyber Dialogue video short

in Bali, where we are holding follow up dialogues. Video short is here: http://vimeo.com/77650794 Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http

[liberationtech] Monitoring Information Controls During the Bali IGF

,” OpenNet Initiative, January 28, 2011,https://opennet.net/blog/2011/01/egypt%E2%80%99s-internet-blackout-extreme-example-just-time-blocking; and Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski, “Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet,” in Access Denied

[liberationtech] Targeted Threats Index

welcome discussion and feedback. Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab

[liberationtech] Bounding Cyber Power

://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/no6_2.pdf Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com

[liberationtech] A Method for Identifying and Confirming the Use of URL Filtering Products for Censorship

, Bennett Haselton, Helmi Noman, and Adam Senft, and Phillipa Gill of the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fconferences.sigcomm.org%2Fimc%2F2013%2Fpapers%2Fimc112s-dalekA.pdf Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab

[liberationtech] A Method for Identifying and Confirming the Use of URL Filtering Products for Censorship

/papers/URLFiltering.html Cheers Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab r.deib

[liberationtech] wikileaks turkmenistan

deployment document for Turkmenistan http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/docs/GAMMA_2011_TMFinfFinF_en.html Regards Ron which outlines the Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab Report

Read the Washington Post article; http://goo.gl/0BxtD Email the Citizen Lab: i...@citizenlab.org Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org

Re: [liberationtech] New newsletter on digital rights in the Arab world - Digital Citizen (المواطن الرقمي)

, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs

[liberationtech] A Call to Harm: New Malware Attacks Target the Syrian Opposition.

is a malicious installer of the circumvention tool Freegate. The other is an e-mail attachment calling for jihad against Hezbollah and the Assad regime or promising interesting regional news. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global

[liberationtech] An Analysis of Canada-based Netsweeper’s Role in Pakistan’s Censorship Regime

Dear LibTech Colleagues I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report that may be of interest to the list. Details are below: 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/

[liberationtech] NSA spying trashes U.S. global role

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/opinion/deibert-nsa-surveillance/ NSA spying trashes U.S. global role By Ronald Deibert , Special to CNN updated 8:32 AM EDT, Wed June 12, 2013 CNN.com Can Americans trust NSA's surveillance? Editor's note: Ronald Deibert is a professor of political science

[liberationtech] 5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in the West

5 Russian-Made Surveillance Technologies Used in the West BY ANDREI SOLDATOV AND IRINA BOROGAN http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/russian-surveillance-technologies/ A joint investigation by Agentura.Ru, CitizenLab and PrivacyInternational. Additional reporting by Robert Beckhusen Ronald

[liberationtech] For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying

Mozilla's blog for details of their cease and desist letter here: http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/30/protecting-our-brand-from-a-global-spyware-provider/ Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University

[liberationtech] New Citizen Lab report: Permission To Spy

-government-hackers-spread-android-malware/ Regards Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org

[liberationtech] You Only Click Twice

not part of their product line, and that previously discovered copies of their software were either stolen or demo copies. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http

[liberationtech] APT1s GLASSES – Watching a Human Rights Organization

Hi Lib Tech The Citizen Lab's Seth Hardy has authored a new research post, APT1s GLASSES – Watching a Human Rights Organization, which analyzes some malware targeting civil society that relates to data in the much discussed Mandiant report. Key Findings • Malware (“GLASSES”) sent in

[liberationtech] After the Green Movement, Internet Controls in Iran, 2009-2012

tools of suppression and a means of national defence. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org

[liberationtech] Teachers’ pension plan invests in Internet surveillance firm.

Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and Sarah McKune is senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

(the largest, Vietnamese-controlled, ISP doesn’t!).) The serious problem is the infrastructure even if today it is only used on a few sites. All the best, Jake -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Ronald Deibert

[liberationtech] In Ex-Soviet States, Russian Spy Tech Still Watches You

in the former Soviet Union continues long into the second regime of Vladimir Putin. A joint investigation by Agentura.Ru, CitizenLab and Privacy International. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University

[liberationtech] The SmartPhone Who Loved Me: FinFisher goes mobile?

. Additional thanks to Marcia Hofmann, Eva Galperin and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tip of the hat to John Adams for scanning advice. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP

[liberationtech] University of Toronto’s Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Announce the Cyber Stewards Program

, which spun out of the lab into a private Canadian corporation (Psiphon Inc.) in 2008. Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http