Given Novalpina Capital’s recent acquisition of NSO Group and the obvious human rights concerns raised by NSO Group’s business practices, Citizen Lab's Ronald Deibert seeks a response from the South…

A research group at the University of Toronto has untangled look-alike websites and bogus news stories that appear to echo the Iranian government’s positions.

Using Endless Mayfly as an illustration, this highlights the challenges of investigating & addressing disinformation from research & policy perspectives.

Associates of Jamal Khashoggi were warned by the CIA that their efforts to continue his work have made them targets for Saudi retaliation.

Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines the impact of technology on our societal and cultural values. Based in Berlin, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression…

Sophisticated digital spyware such as Pegasus can turn cellphones into secret agents to take aim at advocates, lawyers, scientists, and the media – and these programs know no borders

Mansoor was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in 2015. He has been jailed multiple times since 2011.

This is how Twitter turns one tweet into a major news story.

Australian politicians including the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader risk being kicked off China's largest social media platform WeChat for using official accounts set up by Chinese citizens.

Opinion: Canadian-made technology seems to be enabling the Egyptian regime to block access to tens of thousands of internet sites

In this report we provide the first systematic study of keyword and website censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China

Who is behind internet shutdowns? This video explains the role of telecom companies in politically-motivated disruptions [by Freyburg, Garbe & Wavre]. Taking...

Tech firms have reason to worry

The crackdown on internet freedom in early June has become an iconic source of panic for the Communist Party of China.

LONDON (AP) — Keir Giles' first thought was that the man's cheap-looking suit didn't seem right for a private equity executive. The man seated in front of him at the London hotel claimed to live...

Censored Histories: Remembering June 4th, 30 years ago

“The companies have more and more power…. They take advantage of our desire for ease, our resistance to effort, our resistance to challenge, and I think, over time, if we’re not already there, it will interfere with our ability to have critical thinking.” - David

Spyware developer NSO Group is usually quick to dismiss the evidence that its customers have abused its Pegasus mobile phone spyware. This pattern of denials was repeated in a recent 60 Minutes…

On March 28, 2009 the Citizen Lab released “Tracking GhostNet“. So much has changed since then, both for me personally as well as the research community, the industry and the threat landscape itself.…

Six journalists have been killed since December, despite a program intended to keep them safe.

The notorious and controversial Israeli hacking and surveillance tools vendor NSO Group has launched a big marketing campaign with a new website and Google ads.

Posts tagged “NSO Group” March 20, 2019 This research brief details how Griselda Triana, journalist and the wife of slain journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, was targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus…