Stefania Milan has co-authored an article with Arne Hintz, titled “Networked Collective Action and the Institutionalized Policy Debate: Bringing Cyberactivism to the Policy Arena?”,
Tag Archives: Activists
Citizen Lab Fellow Stefania Milan co-authors article on networked cyberactivism
April 9, 2013 – 5:11 pm
Civil society hung out to dry in global cyber espionage
March 4, 2013 – 7:09 pm
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune authored a new article in CircleID on the often overlooked dimension of cyber threats and cyber espionage: the targeting of civil society actors.
Activists convicted in Vietnam crackdown on dissent
January 9, 2013 – 3:29 pm
Source: The New York Times
A court in central Vietnam convicted 14 bloggers, writers and political and social activists on Wednesday of plotting to overthrow the government.
Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan at National University of Singapore
August 28, 2012 – 2:59 pm
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will be participating at the Inter-Asia Roundtable 2012: Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Cyber Activism Research conference at the National University of Singapore on August 30-31, 2012.
New malware targeting Syrian actvists uses BlackShades commercial Trojan
July 12, 2012 – 3:34 am
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since March of this year, EFF has reported extensively on the ongoing campaign to use social engineering to install surveillance software that spies on Syrian activists.
Citizen Lab Research Fellow Luis Horacio Nájera interviewed post Mexican election
July 2, 2012 – 5:07 am
Luis Horacio Nájera spoke about the youth movement known as YoSoy132 and their activities during the presidential campaign.
Anonymous shine a light on the “white gold” trade
May 15, 2012 – 4:39 pm
Source: Pierre Leibovici, Owni.eu
According to a statement posted on a related blog, Anonymous intends to expose the “trafficking of coltan” orchestrated by those multinationals in the DRC.
UK filmmaker unwittingly divulges identity of Syrian activists
May 3, 2012 – 2:55 pm
Source: Matthieu Aikins, Columbia Journalism Review
Last fall, “Kardokh,” a 25-year-old dissident and computer expert in the Syrian capital of Damascus, met with British journalist and filmmaker Sean McAllister. (Kardokh is his online pseudonym, used at his request.)
Targeted attacks in Syria
May 3, 2012 – 2:51 pm
Source: F-Secure
Syria has been the center of much international attention lately.
Anonymous wants to take down the Great Firewall of China
April 11, 2012 – 11:49 am
Source: Emil Protalinski, ZD Net
The group has hacked and defaced hundreds of Chinese government, company, and other general websites to the point where China even acknowledged the attacks.
