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Posted on 17/01/2013 From The Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Fellow Stefania Milan and Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy will participate in a one-day conference hosted by the International Relations Society at the University of Toronto. The 2013 Annual Conference explores internet security and hacking in an IR context.
Deibert will give the keynote address; Milan will participate in the first panel, Hacktivism and Democracy-Building: Good or Bad?; and Hardy will join a panel on Cyberwarfare: State and Non-State Actors...
Posted on 17/01/2013 From Electronic Frontier Foundation
The death of our friend Aaron Swartz has resulted in an unprecedented outpouring of grief, along with a strong commitment to use this tragedy to make some of the change Aaron wanted to see in the world.At EFF, Aaron's death created two imperatives on issues that are close to our hearts. The first is to continue his work to open up closed and entrenched systems that prevent ordinary people from having access to the world’s knowledge, especially the knowledge created with our tax dollars. More...
Posted on 16/01/2013 From The Citizen Lab
Source: Andre Meister, Netzpolitik
The German Federal Police office has purchased the commercial Spyware toolkit FinFisher of Eleman/Gamma Group. This is revealed by a secret document of the Ministry of the Interior, which we are publishing exclusively. Instead of legitimizing products used by authoritarian regimes for the violation of human rights, the German state should restrict the export of such state malware.
In October 2011, German hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC) analyzed...
Posted on 16/01/2013 From APC
16 January 2013
(Open Institute)
Four training sessions on the use of Ushahidi and collecting data on gender-based violence took place on December 2012 under the Spider project lead by APC member in Cambodia Open Institute. The training was attended by 108 commune/sangkat councilors and members of commune/sangkat committees in charge of women and children from different Cambodian provinces.
Posted on 16/01/2013 From Michael Geist
Many readers will recall that nearly one year ago, the U.S. government launched
a global takedown of Megaupload.com, with arrests of the leading
executives in New Zealand and the execution of search warrants in nine
countries. Canada was among the list of participating countries as the
action included seizure of Megaupload.com servers located here. While
the failed attempt
(thus far) to extradite Megaupload mogul Kim Dotcom to the U.S. has
attracted the lion share of attention, the U.S....
Posted on 16/01/2013 From The Citizen Lab
The following individuals contributed to this report:
Morgan Marquis-Boire (lead technical research) and Jakub Dalek (lead technical research), Sarah McKune (lead legal research), Matthew Carrieri, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Ron Deibert, Saad Omar Khan, Helmi Noman, John Scott-Railton, and Greg Wiseman.
Summary of Key Findings
Blue Coat Devices capable of filtering, censorship, and surveillance are being used around the world. During several weeks of scanning and validation that ended in January...
Posted on 16/01/2013 From The Citizen Lab
Read the report: Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools.
Countries of interest in which Blue Coat devices were located:
ProxySG
Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
PacketShaper
Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela
Bahrain
We identified a single PacketShaper installation flagged by Shodan as recently as...
Posted on 15/01/2013 From APC
JOHANNESBURG
15 January 2013
(IT web online)
Now in its 34th year, the IT Personality of the Year recognises a person who has made an outstanding impact on the South African ICT industry and a significant contribution to the ICT profession. Among this year’s five nominees was APC Executive director, Anriette Esterhuysen.