Infowar Monitor
The Information Warfare Monitor is an independent research activity tracking the emergence of cyberspace as a strategic domain. Our mission is to build and broaden the evidence base available to scholars, policy makers, and others.Search
Information Warfare Monitor Project Closure
The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM) project closed in January 2012, having conducted advanced research activity tracking the emergence of cyberspace as a strategic domain.The IWM was established in 2002 by Ronald Deibert from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and Rafal Rohozinski from the The SecDev Group (formerly the Advanced Network Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK), as a sister project to the Open Net Initiative of which Deibert and Rohozinski are principal investigators along with John Palfrey (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University) and Jonathan Zittrain (Oxford Internet Institute). The research of the IWM was supported by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (University of Toronto), a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in-kind and staff contributions from the SecDev Group, and a donation of software from Palantir Technologies Inc.
Click here [pdf] to read the project publishable summary.
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Big Data Meets Big Brother
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert published an article titled “Big Data Meets Big Brother”. -
Behind Blue Coat: An update from Burma
The Citizen Lab continues to call on Blue Coat to prevent further use of its technology in Burma. -
Behind Blue Coat: Investigations of commercial filtering in Syria and Burma
Blue Coat eventually acknowledged that 13 of their devices were being used in Syria.
News
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Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad
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Liberating Taiwan: One phish at a time – 2010-2011
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Political repression 2.0
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Secret April 2009 US Cable regarding Tracking Ghostnet report released
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Syria’s digital counter-revolutionaries
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Kernel.org Linux repository rooted in hack attack
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China shutters 6,600 websites for manipulating information online
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Fake antivirus industry down, but not out
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Researchers discover Twitter-controlled bitcoin bot
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Shady RAT: The biggest ever cyber-attack?