Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, former Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan and Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy will participate in a conference hosted by the International Relations Society on Saturday, 26 January 2013.
Tag Archives: Hacktivism
EVENT: A Global Village? Hacktivists, Cyberwarriors and International Relations
January 17, 2013 – 5:55 pm
Worries over defense department money for ‘hackerspaces’
October 5, 2012 – 1:30 am
Source: Amy O’Leary, The New York Times
This fall, 16 high schools in California started experimental workshops, billed as a kind of “shop class for the 21st century,” that were financed by the federal government.
Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch: July 14 – July 27, 2012
July 30, 2012 – 8:46 am
This issue of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Cyber Watch covers issues such as blogger and netizen arrests, Internet and social media use, censorship and filtering, hacktivism, government control, and cyber warfare.
Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps
June 17, 2012 – 7:29 am
Source: Joseph Menn, Reuters
Frustrated by their inability to stop sophisticated hacking attacks or use the law to punish their assailants, an increasing number of U.S. companies are taking retaliatory action.
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.
Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet
April 20, 2012 – 5:28 pm
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert interviewed for CNET article on hacktivism
March 30, 2012 – 2:05 pm
Source: Elinor Mills, CNET
In December 1998, a U.S.-based hacker group called Legions of the Underground declared cyberwar on Iraq and China and prepared to protest human rights abuses in those countries by disrupting their Internet access.
Syria e-mail hack points to new “information war”
March 16, 2012 – 10:54 pm
Source: Peter Apps, Reuters
Whether Syrian rebels hacked President Bashar al-Assad’s e-mails themselves or with the help of Western spy agencies or “hactivists”, the release of dozens of revealing messages points to a new era of information warfare.
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan on cloud protesting at Unlike Us conference
March 13, 2012 – 10:08 am
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan gave a talk on cloud protesting at the Unlike Us 2, Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology conference at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.
Tap into the gifted young hackers, says Misha Glenny
March 8, 2012 – 1:28 pm
Source: Misha Glenny, The New York Times
Teenagers are not usually the main targets of the F.B.I., whose agents are used to dealing with hardened criminals. But for the Cyber Division, they appear to be the norm.
