Citizen Lab Concepts

Ajax: The Definitive Guide

by Anthony T. Holdener · 25 Jan 2008 · 982pp · 221,145 words

International is working with the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) to help raise awareness of Internet censorship around the world. The ONI is a collaboration of the Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School UK

Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One

by Debora MacKenzie · 13 Jul 2020 · 266pp · 80,273 words

, that day… YY: Lotus Ruan, Jeffrey Knockel, and Masashi Crete-Nishihata, “Censored contagion: how information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media,” The Citizen Lab (University of Toronto), March 3, 2020, citizenlab.ca/2020/03/censored-contagion-how-information-on-the-coronavirus-is-managed-on-chinese-social-media. 33. If

Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth

by Dan McCrum · 15 Jun 2022 · 361pp · 117,566 words

intensity, ingenuity and effort, as if he was being passed around the hacking organization as an unresolved project. Earl sent all of these on to Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, a group of ‘white-hat’ academics who studied, and sometimes exposed, online surveillance in all its noxious forms. Earl and

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’d been targeted for years by a malevolent financial institution. Earl could talk about the hacking because, at long last, a week before Wirecard imploded, Citizen Lab in Toronto published an investigation into the Indian hacker gang BellTroX which the report said had targeted him, me, Oliver Cobb and all the other

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Wirecard critics. It was the Reuters journalist Alasdair Pal who had brought the hackers to Citizen Lab’s attention, and it was thanks to Earl, and Wirecard’s relentless pursuit of him over multiple years, that the researchers were able to track

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Third-Party Acquiring 200–203 Timo (German lawyer) 142–3, 208 Tolentino, Mark 293, 304 Manila trustee meeting 272–5 protests innocence 300 Toronto University Citizen Lab 208 on Indian hacker gang BellTroX 298–9 Trautmann, Rüdiger xi, 45, 61, 63, 97, 98, 116 and Inatec 46 police take inbox archives 101

@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

by Shane Harris · 14 Sep 2014 · 340pp · 96,149 words

to review all potential customers to ensure that the technology won’t “be used to facilitate human rights violations.” But in October 2012, researchers with Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto reported that Hacking Team’s Remote Control System was used to infect the computer of a prominent pro-democracy activist

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

by David S. Abraham · 27 Oct 2015 · 386pp · 91,913 words

in Indonesia”; Mariel Grazella, “Mobile Data Use Skyrocketing,” Jakarta Post, January 22, 2014, www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/01/22/mobile-data-use-skyrocketing.html; Citizen Lab, “IGF 2013: An Overview of Indonesian Internet Infrastructure and Governance,” University of Toronto, October 25, 2013, citizenlab.org/2013/10/igf-2013-an-overview-of

The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

by Brian Merchant · 19 Jun 2017 · 416pp · 129,308 words

, though no one knows who won the money. And no one, save Zerodium, knows what became of the zero days. And in 2016, Toronto’s Citizen Lab revealed that a very sophisticated form of malware, called Trident, had been used to try to infect a civil rights activist’s phone in the

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow · 14 Oct 2019 · 390pp · 115,303 words

with a neat white beard, who identified himself as Michael Lambert, sat down for lunch with John Scott-Railton, a researcher for the watchdog group Citizen Lab. Lambert had said he worked for the Paris-based agricultural technology firm CPW-Consulting, and asked to meet about Scott-Railton’s doctoral research on

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using kite-mounted cameras to create maps, which is a thing, apparently. But as food arrived, Lambert’s interests strayed. Citizen Lab, which tracks state-backed efforts to hack and surveil journalists, had recently reported that NSO Group’s Pegasus software compromised an iPhone belonging to a

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to target Khashoggi but also refused to answer questions about whether the software had been sold to the Saudi government. Lambert wanted to know about Citizen Lab’s work on NSO Group. He asked whether there was any “racist element” to the focus on an Israeli group. He pressed Scott-Railton about

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to have been involved in a string of Black Cube operations. Black Cube and NSO Group would later deny any connection to the operation against Citizen Lab. But in many of the meetings Ostrovskiy had described to me over the preceding months, Almog-Assouline had been there, appearing to target figures who

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a public service angle, he announced, proud and earnest, meaning it and wanting me to know he meant it. Maybe he could help groups like Citizen Lab. “Moving forward, I’m going to try to be more involved with this kind of stuff, to better society, to seek out these kind of

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you to Shachar Alterman of Uvda, the documentarian Ella Alterman, Adam Ciralsky of Vanity Fair, Raphael Satter of the Associated Press, John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab, and Adam Entous, my colleague at The New Yorker, for their help with the Black Cube reporting. Thank you to those who exposed allegations of

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: Undercover Agents Target Cybersecurity Watchdog,” Associated Press, January 26, 2019. 3 NSO Group’s Pegasus software compromised an iPhone: Miles Kenyon, “Dubious Denials & Scripted Spin,” Citizen Lab, April 1, 2019. 4 solicited anti-Semitic statements: Ross Marowits, “West Face Accuses Israeli Intelligence Firm of Covertly Targeting Employees,” Financial Post, November 29, 2017

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron · 14 Jun 2023 · 271pp · 79,355 words

.’ 39 Julien Le Bot, Dans la tête de Marc Zuckerberg [‘In the head of Mark Zuckerberg’], Actes Sud, 2019. 40 Interview with Douwe Schmidt, Smart Citizens Lab, Waag Society, 2020. 41 Watch the forty-eight-minute documentary by Sandy Smolan, The Human Face of Big Data, Against All Odds Production, 2014. The

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg · 5 Nov 2019 · 363pp · 105,039 words

Bear’s first time using its skills to influence elections. In May 2017, a group of security researchers at the University of Toronto called the Citizen Lab would find forensic evidence that the group was also behind CyberBerkut, the pro-Putin hacktivist group that had in 2014 hacked Ukraine’s Central Election

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe · 3 Oct 2022 · 689pp · 134,457 words

convince him. Abdulaziz demurred. The following month, his phone was hacked, though he was unaware of it for months, according to a report by the Citizen Lab, an organization at the University of Toronto that investigates digital espionage against civil society. In August, Abdulaziz’s two brothers were thrown in jail. Another

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with sentiment analysis who confirmed that this was the technique being employed. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT The following month, his phone was hacked: Citizen Lab, “How a Canadian Permanent Resident and Saudi Arabian Dissident Was Targeted with Powerful Spyware on Canadian Soil,” Oct. 22, 2018. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN

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–29 Chrysler, 32 Chui, Michael, 127, 150 Churchill, Winston, 258 cigarettes, 73, 110–18 Cirque du Soleil, 267 Cisco, 40 Citibank, 171, 174–77, 180 Citizen Lab, 253 Claims Core Process Redesign System, 194, 199 Clee, Gilbert, 23 Cleveland Indians, 216–18 Clevinger, Mike, 217 Climate Accountability Institute, 163 “Climate Breaking Points